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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the middle ages, what do many Christians believe Jesus suffered from?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Blindness.
(c) Leprosy.
(d) Mental Illness.

3. Who fights against Antiochus?
(a) Africans.
(b) Maccabeans.
(c) Christians.
(d) Egyptians.

4. Why does Yancey believe that Jews stopped following Jesus?
(a) Jesus was not the Messiah the Jews were expecting.
(b) The Jews were persecuted for following Jesus.
(c) Jesus was too radical and not well liked.
(d) The Jews found a different man to be the Messiah.

5. 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.

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

7. Who invited Yancey to the White House?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Billy Graham.
(c) President Clinton.
(d) George Bush.

8. 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.

9. What are the Zealots like?
(a) Interested in drama, opera, and art.
(b) Rich, generous, and very sociable.
(c) Politically conservative, preferred agrarian lifestyle.
(d) Morals police, revolt against impure foreigners.

10. How does the Lakota tribe refer to Jesus?
(a) Peace Giver.
(b) Buffalo calf of God.
(c) Lamb of God.
(d) Son of Almighty.

11. Who directs the silent classic from 1927 "King of Kings"?
(a) George Barker.
(b) Cecil B. DeMille.
(c) George Lucas.
(d) Monty Baraza.

12. Where are the headquarters of the Wycliffe Bible translators?
(a) New York City.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Little Rock, Arkansas.

13. Who marries the granddaughter of Augustus Caesar?
(a) Caesar Julius.
(b) Pontius Pilate.
(c) Herod Antipas.
(d) Herod the Great.

14. What does Ivan Karamazov write?
(a) "The Grand Inquisitor" poem.
(b) Jesus, Son of God.
(c) The Brothers Karamozov.
(d) Fifth symphony in Bflat.

15. How many Jews live in the Roman Empire in the first century?
(a) 8 million.
(b) 500.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 500 million.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What typifies the Sadducees?

3. Where did Yancey grow up?

4. What does Yancey think the church has turned Jesus into, according to Chapter 1?

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

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