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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, What He Left Behind: Chapter 12, Ascension: A Blank Blue Sky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does a commentary Yancey mentions translate "Blessed are the poor in spirit"?
(a) Blessed are the desperate.
(b) The poor have less spirit.
(c) Blessings come from poverty.
(d) Blessed are the spiritless.

2. Why does H. G. Wells say Jesus is important?
(a) His Jewish background is unique.
(b) Jesus is the son of God.
(c) What Jesus left continues to grow.
(d) Caused a turning point in history.

3. What is the Ascension?
(a) The disciples are filled with the Holy Spirit.
(b) The long spiritual climb to perfection.
(c) Jesus returning to heaven in a mystical way.
(d) Virgin Mary comes down to earth and gets her son.

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

5. Where does Jesus leave his teaching and life's journey?
(a) In human beings.
(b) In song and verse.
(c) In a book that is now lost.
(d) On many stone tablets found in caves in 1947.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Yancey, why are older black people happier than older white people?

2. What does Yancey give up as a result of the Sermon on the Mount?

3. Who wrote the Japanese novel Silence?

4. Where is Laszlo Tokes from?

5. Why does Zacchaeus climb the tree?

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