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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does Joseph bring his family to Israel?
(a) When Jesus is 21.
(b) After Herod the Great dies.
(c) They never came back.
(d) After the Red Sea is parted.

3. How do teachers live in Jesus'sday?
(a) By charging tuition for their classes.
(b) The state of Israel supports them.
(c) Off the gifts of appreciative listeners.
(d) By publishing books.

4. According to Yancey, why are older black people happier than older white people?
(a) Blacks are healthier.
(b) Whites take less care of their elders.
(c) White people worry more.
(d) Black people tend to believe in heaven.

5. What does communism consider religion to be?
(a) "State sponsored behavior control."
(b) "Leftist propaganda."
(c) "The opiate of the people."
(d) "The answer to all problems."

6. According to Yancey, what is the primary emotion in most religions when one approaches God?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Fear.
(d) Anger.

7. In Chapter 5, what is the one word Yancey chooses to describe Jesus best?
(a) Mystery man.
(b) Rabbi.
(c) Jewish Messiah.
(d) Man of God.

8. What magazine is Jimmy Carter famously interviewed about lust in?
(a) Christianity Today.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) National Geographic.
(d) Playboy.

9. What is the outcome of a betrothed woman committing adultery in Jesus's day?
(a) Sent to Egypt.
(b) No communion for a month.
(c) It was not a problem.
(d) Death by stoning.

10. What does supersessionism mean?
(a) There is no way to suppress Christianity.
(b) Suppression of religion is good.
(c) Super religion suppresses other lesser religion.
(d) Some religions grow out of and supersede others.

11. What are Owens's student's reaction to the Sermon on the Mount?
(a) They find it offensive and absurd.
(b) It changed their lives for the better.
(c) Profound and humbling.
(d) Humorous and silly.

12. What does the name Jesus mean?
(a) He who sees all.
(b) He shall save.
(c) God Almighty.
(d) Drawn from water.

13. Who directs Jesus of Nazareth?
(a) Zeffirelli.
(b) Huston.
(c) Lucas.
(d) Brando.

14. How many laws do the Pharisees discover?
(a) 45,600.
(b) 613.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 10.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Jesus when he dies?

2. Where is Laszlo Tokes from?

3. What does Yancey object to in modern Christmas cards?

4. How does Yancey describe Jesus in Chapter 3?

5. What is the image Yancey first has of Jesus?

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