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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Yancey drawn to Jesus, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Jesus is the dividing point of Yancey's life.
(b) Yancey can't say why.
(c) It is God's will.
(d) Jesus's teaching is so complicated.

2. What does Jesus propose for those who look at a woman lustfully?
(a) Become monks.
(b) Self-denial of all pleasure whatsoever.
(c) Removal of the offending eye.
(d) Marry immediately and re-channel the lust.

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

4. Where does Jesus spend his first years?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) London.
(c) Far East.
(d) Egypt.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what does Yancey say the Gospels assert that Jesus is?
(a) Good teacher.
(b) Good friend.
(c) God's own son.
(d) Nice Guy.

6. Who writes For the Time Being?
(a) Apostle Paul.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Mariamne Herod.
(d) W. H. Auden.

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

8. What is the movie that Yancey saw in 1971 that portrayed a very different kind of Jesus?
(a) Jesus of Montreal.
(b) The Passion of the Christ.
(c) What a Wonderful life.
(d) The Gospel According to St. Matthew.

9. What does Antiochus try to do to the Jews?
(a) Hellenize their culture.
(b) Enslave them for pyramid building.
(c) Completely destroy all the people.
(d) Drive them into the Gobi desert.

10. According to Yancy in Chapter 5, why do people like being where Jesus is?
(a) Jesus healed people.
(b) They don't; people shunned Jesus.
(c) Where Jesus is, there is joy.
(d) Jesus challenged people to think differently.

11. What is Jesus' s first official act as an adult?
(a) Meeting Satan in the wilderness.
(b) Writing the book of John.
(c) Becoming an official rabbi.
(d) Raising Lazarus from the dead.

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

13. What does the author M. Scott Peck try to bring about?
(a) Theological dogmatic purity.
(b) A new translation of the Bible.
(c) Conversion of Islam and Buddhism to Christianity.
(d) Interfaith understanding and tolerance.

14. Where does Yancey teach the Beatitudes?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Radio 101.
(c) Class at LaSalle Street Church in Chicago.
(d) His son's preschool.

15. Who is the treasurer for Jesus's disciples?
(a) Judas.
(b) Mary.
(c) Paul.
(d) Peter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Lakota tribe refer to Jesus?

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

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

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

5. According to Yancey, what is the primary emotion in most religions when one approaches God?

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