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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yancey give up as a result of the Sermon on the Mount?
(a) 1947 Jackie Robinson baseball card.
(b) All his money.
(c) Eating chocolate.
(d) Going to church.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Albert Schweitzer interpret the Sermon on the Mount?
(a) Interim demands for unusual times.
(b) Fanciful thoughts of an innocent man.
(c) Guidelines that are not practical.
(d) Misquotes and mistaken translations.

9. When are the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumram?
(a) 2008.
(b) 1647.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1947.

10. What does Yancey do for snowbound weeks in Colorado?
(a) Pray for help.
(b) Almost dies.
(c) Loses his faith.
(d) Read the Bible.

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

12. What is the ethnic background of Jesus?
(a) Atheist.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Islamic.
(d) Christian.

13. What does Yancey find remarkable about Mary?
(a) Jewish and not well born.
(b) Managed to have a baby on her own.
(c) Too young to have children.
(d) Accepted Jesus on his own terms, regardless of the cost.

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

15. How many times is the Augustus Caesar mentioned in the Bible?
(a) Fifty times.
(b) One time.
(c) Thousand times.
(d) Ten times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the name Jesus mean?

2. Where is the Sermon on the Mount in the Bible?

3. How does Yancey describe Jesus in Chapter 3?

4. What is the Golden Rule?

5. What magazine is Jimmy Carter famously interviewed about lust in?

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