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

2. When are the Gospels written?
(a) After the death of Jesus.
(b) Before Jesus was born.
(c) We have no idea.
(d) Jesus wrote them during his lifetime.

3. What does Yancey say a major problem is in looking at the historical Jesus?
(a) Political agendas.
(b) Lack of language knowledge.
(c) Flash forward analysis.
(d) No historical understanding.

4. What do the Essenes believe in?
(a) Essence of spirit came from drinking no water.
(b) Dionysian festivals of drunken merrymaking.
(c) Poetry, painting, and basket weaving.
(d) Pacificism, purity, and seperatation from society.

5. When does Yancey first get acquainted with Jesus?
(a) Army chapel services.
(b) Theological Seminary.
(c) Sunday school.
(d) College.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "gospel" mean?

2. Where does Yancey teach his film class on Jesus?

3. How many times is the Augustus Caesar mentioned in the Bible?

4. How many Jews live in the Roman Empire in the first century?

5. What language does Jesus speak on a daily basis?

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