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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Who He Was: Chapter 2, Birth: The Visited Planet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yancey want to answer with this book, according to Chapter 1?
(a) What would Jesus do?
(b) Who was Jesus?
(c) What is the point of life?
(d) Why was there a Jesus?

2. What does Yancey find remarkable about Mary?
(a) Accepted Jesus on his own terms, regardless of the cost.
(b) Jewish and not well born.
(c) Managed to have a baby on her own.
(d) Too young to have children.

3. What does Walter Wink say about Jesus in Chapter 1?
(a) Jesus was not human and therefore not accessible.
(b) Jesus was never interested in writing anything down, but we are.
(c) There was no Jesus, we simply threw together a story.
(d) If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.

4. What typifies the Sadducees?
(a) Physically active, liked games and sports.
(b) Collaborated with Greeks and Romans.
(c) Sad and lonely people.
(d) Large gregarious families with many parties and celebrations.

5. What is the image Yancey first has of Jesus?
(a) Angry radical political leader.
(b) Sweet Victorian nanny holding lambs and smiling.
(c) Ethereal being of light.
(d) Intense philosophical giant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does H. G. Wells say Jesus is important?

2. What does the word "gospel" mean?

3. What is the outcome of a betrothed woman committing adultery in Jesus's day?

4. Where does Jesus spend his first years?

5. Who are the 'Jesus freaks' referred to in Chapter 1?

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