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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yancey say is the message of Jesus's miracles?
(a) Only God can heal.
(b) Jesus is God.
(c) Miracles happen randomly.
(d) Early glimpses of what is to come.

2. Who wrote the Japanese novel Silence?
(a) Shusako Endo.
(b) John Banto.
(c) Phil Yancey.
(d) Andy Bain.

3. What is missing from Thomas Jefferson's version of the New Testament?
(a) Faith.
(b) Disciples.
(c) Miracles.
(d) Jesus.

4. Who writes the poem that opens Chapter 12?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Robert Byrns.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) King David.

5. Where is the opening quote of Chapter 8 from?
(a) Mission: Impossible.
(b) Peter's letter to the Epistles.
(c) Gospel of Matthew.
(d) The Merchant of Venice.

6. What is Zacchaeus's profession?
(a) Barber.
(b) Politician.
(c) Rabbi.
(d) Tax collector.

7. Did Jesus call himself a Messiah?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) We don't know.
(d) There are strongly divided opinions about this.

8. What changes politically with the death of Jesus?
(a) Jews begin to rule again in Palestine.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The Roman Empire falls very quickly.
(d) Herod the Great is murdered.

9. What is the feeling of the resurrection stories in the Bible?
(a) Sense of revenge against Romans.
(b) Just what everyone expected.
(c) Shock.
(d) Sorrow.

10. What does Jesus say when Pilate asks him if he is the King of the Jews?
(a) "I am, so step aside and let me rule."
(b) "My kingdom is not of this world."
(c) "With God's help, I will be."
(d) "My kingdom has come, prepare to be dismissed."

11. What did the first Christians stake everything on?
(a) The Resurrection.
(b) Nothing, they were utterly lost.
(c) Paul's theology.
(d) A new religion.

12. How is God's kingdom different than a human kingdom, according to Yancey in Chapter 13?
(a) God is the king in his kingdom.
(b) It is bigger.
(c) It lives and grows on the inside of human beings.
(d) We can't know the answer to that.

13. When Jesus departs, where does he leave the keys to the kingdom, according to Yancey?
(a) In our fumbling hands.
(b) To his mother Mary.
(c) He doesn't leave any keys.
(d) He gives it to Peter.

14. What are Samaritians called?
(a) Half-breeds.
(b) Radicals.
(c) Egyptians.
(d) Kind people.

15. What does Surgeon General Koop say the new leprosy is?
(a) Toxic elements.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Mental illness.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about the disease of leprosy?

2. How many times does the word "kingdom" appear in the gospel of Matthew?

3. What do modern Christians call the final week of Jesus?

4. Why has the name Judas died out?

5. Where does Shusaku Endo grow up?

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