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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. How does Albert Schweitzer interpret the Sermon on the Mount?
(a) Fanciful thoughts of an innocent man.
(b) Guidelines that are not practical.
(c) Interim demands for unusual times.
(d) Misquotes and mistaken translations.

2. What does Yancey give up as a result of the Sermon on the Mount?
(a) Eating chocolate.
(b) All his money.
(c) 1947 Jackie Robinson baseball card.
(d) Going to church.

3. What does the word "gospel" mean?
(a) Good News.
(b) Good Riddance.
(c) God's spell.
(d) Book of rules.

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

5. What magazine is Jimmy Carter famously interviewed about lust in?
(a) Newsweek.
(b) Playboy.
(c) Christianity Today.
(d) National Geographic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Yancey find remarkable about Mary?

3. How many books does Jacob Neusner write?

4. What television figure does Yancy compare his early understanding of Jesus to?

5. According to Yancy in Chapter 5, why do people like being where Jesus is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Jesus look like?

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

3. What is the concept from Barbara Tuchman of "no flash-forwards"?

4. Why does Yancey find the Beatitudes so difficult?

5. Who is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson?

6. What is it that restores Jesus's humanity for Yancey?

7. What were the Maccabeans fighting against?

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

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

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

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