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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Yancey, what is the primary emotion in most religions when one approaches God?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Fear.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Anger.

2. How does the Lakota tribe refer to Jesus?
(a) Lamb of God.
(b) Peace Giver.
(c) Son of Almighty.
(d) Buffalo calf of God.

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

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

5. What does Yancey think the church has turned Jesus into, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Boring and predictable person.
(b) Larger than life figure.
(c) Money-making idol.
(d) Raging Lion of Judah.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the German Christian Church admire in 1933?

2. When are the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumram?

3. Where does Jesus spend his first years?

4. In Chapter 5, what is the one word Yancey chooses to describe Jesus best?

5. Who is the treasurer for Jesus's disciples?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Henri Nouwen do that is so unusual?

2. How does the gospel of Matthew open and what is the importance of that?

3. What does Yancey say the Communist party had trouble with?

4. What are the Beatitudes?

5. What may Satan have taken away from the confrontation with Jesus in the wilderness?

6. What did Jesus look like?

7. What does Jesus change about the way people worship?

8. Why does Yancey start Chapter 5 with a quote from Napoleon?

9. Why does Yancey grow up not knowing any Jewish people?

10. What did the students at Texas A & M think of the Beatitudes?

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