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

2. Who writes the play "The Man Born to be King?"
(a) George MacDonald.
(b) Dorothy Sayers.
(c) Thomas Merton.
(d) Tolstoy.

3. When are the Gospels written?
(a) Jesus wrote them during his lifetime.
(b) Before Jesus was born.
(c) After the death of Jesus.
(d) We have no idea.

4. Who is in power in Palestine when Jesus is born?
(a) Antiochus.
(b) The council of Hosea.
(c) Herod the Great.
(d) Galilee the Wise.

5. What does Francois Mauriac strive to be?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Pure.
(c) Rich.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yancey do for snowbound weeks in Colorado?

2. According to Yancey, what kind of man was Tolstoy?

3. Where is the Sermon on the Mount in the Bible?

4. How many laws do the Pharisees discover?

5. How old is Jesus when he dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Yancey say about parallel worlds in Chapter 1?

2. What is the one word label Yancey would bestow upon Jesus?

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

4. What language did Jesus speak growing up?

5. Who is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson?

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

7. What experience did Yancey have that began to change his understanding of Jesus?

8. What is the Temptation in the desert?

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

10. What is Yancey's purpose in writing The Jesus I Thought I Knew?

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