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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jesus ask of God in his final prayers?
(a) Lift me immediately to heaven.
(b) Take this cup from me.
(c) Kill Pontius Pilate so I won't be hurt.
(d) Give me the power to vanquish Herod.

2. What leader beheads John the Baptist?
(a) Herod.
(b) Pontius PIlate.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Sanhedrin.

3. For Yancey, what was Jesus obscured by in the churches he grew up in?
(a) Evangelical fervor.
(b) Modern music and loose morals.
(c) American politics.
(d) Racism, intolerance, and petty legalism.

4. Who is it that has applied the most layers of dirt and grime on Jesus?
(a) The church.
(b) Scholars.
(c) Unbelievers.
(d) Politicians.

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

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

7. What did Jesus believe was the true power?
(a) God's thunderbolts.
(b) Anger.
(c) Holy Spirit.
(d) Love.

8. Why has the name Judas died out?
(a) Too close to "Jesus."
(b) Sounds like a girl's name.
(c) Reminds people of money lending.
(d) He was a notorious traitor.

9. Why does the leprosy patient cry when Dr. Brand greets him?
(a) He felt lost and alone.
(b) No one had touched him in many years.
(c) It hurt when Dr. Brand shook his hand.
(d) He was frightened.

10. After Jesus feeds the crowd of 5000, what is his next miracle?
(a) None, that was the last.
(b) Makes a fish appear out of thin air.
(c) Feeds a crowd of 10,000.
(d) Walks on water.

11. What word is on the grandmother's tombstone under the live oak tree?
(a) Invincible.
(b) Reversible.
(c) Forever.
(d) Waiting.

12. Where does Jesus leave his teaching and life's journey?
(a) On many stone tablets found in caves in 1947.
(b) In human beings.
(c) In song and verse.
(d) In a book that is now lost.

13. What for Yancey does the Old Testament underscore?
(a) People are angry with God.
(b) God is angry with humanity.
(c) The vast gulf between God and humanity.
(d) Poetry is the only way to describe God.

14. What does "Deus Absconditus" mean?
(a) God Absolutely.
(b) Absence of Deus.
(c) Where is God now?
(d) Deity Neigh.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is God's kingdom different than a human kingdom, according to Yancey in Chapter 13?

3. How do the New Testament Jews refer to God?

4. Why does Zacchaeus climb the tree?

5. According to Yancey, how many times does the Qur'an apply the word "love" to God?

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