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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What do modern Christians call the final week of Jesus?
(a) End Game.
(b) Holy Week.
(c) Walk to the cross.
(d) Gethsemane.

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

6. What is the Ascension?
(a) Virgin Mary comes down to earth and gets her son.
(b) The disciples are filled with the Holy Spirit.
(c) The long spiritual climb to perfection.
(d) Jesus returning to heaven in a mystical way.

7. How does Jesus command Jairus's daughter to come back to life?
(a) "My child, get up!"
(b) "Rise, and be well!"
(c) "She is only asleep."
(d) "Satan, get behind thee."

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

9. What does Christos/Christ mean in Hebrew?
(a) Son of God.
(b) Christian.
(c) Son of Man.
(d) Messiah.

10. What is a basic reason Yancey is open to believing the Easter story?
(a) It is based in proven fact.
(b) He wants it to be true.
(c) It has lasted 2000 years.
(d) Most people do believe it.

11. In Chapter 14, why does Yancey say he is a Christian?
(a) He's not sure.
(b) Born into it.
(c) Jesus and no good alternatives.
(d) Makes the most sense.

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. Yancey says that by ascending Jesus took the risk of what?
(a) Never returning.
(b) Allowing Satan to rule.
(c) Not making a difference in the world.
(d) Being forgotten.

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

15. What does a leper in Jesus's time have to call out?
(a) "Help!"
(b) "Unclean!"
(c) "Make way!"
(d) "Leprosy!"

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has the name Judas died out?

2. What is Zacchaeus's profession?

3. How are Roman citizens executed?

4. Why does the leprosy patient cry when Dr. Brand greets him?

5. Who is it that has applied the most layers of dirt and grime on Jesus?

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