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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 Yancy in Chapter 5, why do people like being where Jesus is?
(a) Where Jesus is, there is joy.
(b) Jesus challenged people to think differently.
(c) Jesus healed people.
(d) They don't; people shunned Jesus.

2. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what does Yancey say the Gospels assert that Jesus is?
(a) Good teacher.
(b) Good friend.
(c) God's own son.
(d) Nice Guy.

3. According to Yancey, what kind of man was Tolstoy?
(a) Simply a bundle of joy and hope.
(b) A great friend, husband, and sweetheart to all.
(c) A deeply unhappy man.
(d) The best father ever.

4. What does Yancey do for snowbound weeks in Colorado?
(a) Pray for help.
(b) Loses his faith.
(c) Read the Bible.
(d) Almost dies.

5. What does Satan ask Jesus to turn a stone into?
(a) Dove.
(b) Loaf of bread.
(c) Water.
(d) Air.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Tolstoy when he wrote Resurrection?

2. Who writes the play "The Man Born to be King?"

3. Who writes So Long, Sweet Jesus?

4. How many laws do the Pharisees discover?

5. Who writes For the Time Being?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three levels of the Beatitudes in Chapter 6?

2. What is the Golden Rule?

3. What does Jesus recommend as a punishment for lustful thinking?

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

5. What is Yancey's interpretation of why God decided not to come in clouds of glory and fix everything?

6. Who is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson?

7. Where did Philip Yancey first become acquainted with the stories of Jesus?

8. What were the Maccabeans fighting against?

9. What are the Beatitudes?

10. What does Yancey do with the extremism of Jesus?

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