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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Jesus's first miracle?
(a) Feeding of the 5000.
(b) Resurrection.
(c) Raising Lazarus from the dead.
(d) Turning water into wine.

3. What did Constantine do that changed Christianity forever?
(a) Legalized it and made it a state subsidized religion.
(b) Wrote a treatise on why Christ matters.
(c) Made Sunday the Sabbath.
(d) Forced Europeans to accept Christ.

4. What three things does Jesus ask his disciples to do in memory of him?
(a) Pray, sing, write.
(b) Do no harm, do not sin, and do not lie.
(c) Baptize, share last supper, wash feet.
(d) Read Bible, memorize verses, obey law.

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

6. In Jesus's, day what were the Jews looking for?
(a) Biblical narrative.
(b) Scientific knowledge.
(c) The end time and a Messiah to save them.
(d) Military might.

7. What bombshell does Jesus drop during the last supper?
(a) Silence must be kept.
(b) He has run out of money.
(c) That one of the disciples will betray him.
(d) There is no God.

8. What do Peter and Judas have in common?
(a) They had nothing in common.
(b) Related by blood, cousins.
(c) They both betrayed Jesus.
(d) They were both very old.

9. Where does Jesus pray for hours before he is arrested?
(a) Upper Room.
(b) Garden of Gethsemane.
(c) Calvary.
(d) Basement under the temple.

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

11. Why does Zacchaeus climb the tree?
(a) Wants more attention for himself.
(b) He is too short to see Jesus.
(c) To get away from Jesus and the crowd.
(d) To drop things on people's heads.

12. What is Frederick Buechner struck by in reading about Jesus's appearances after the resurrection?
(a) Both men and women saw him.
(b) Unglamorous quality of it.
(c) Very few people saw him.
(d) Many people saw him.

13. According to Yancey, how many times does the Qur'an apply the word "love" to God?
(a) None.
(b) Endless times.
(c) 15.
(d) 1,001.

14. What does Yancey's father die of?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Polio.
(d) Cancer.

15. What temptation has the church faced since the time of Constantine?
(a) Having too much money.
(b) Supporting unjust regimes.
(c) Being too much a part of the mainstream powers.
(d) Being the morals police of society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who defends Jesus at his trials?

2. What do the Pharisees think of Jesus?

3. What does Yancey learn from the kitten's death?

4. For Yancey, what was Jesus obscured by in the churches he grew up in?

5. What changes politically with the death of Jesus?

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