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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. In the movie La Dolce Vita, what is the helicopter ferrying?
(a) Giant statue of Jesus.
(b) Flocks of gulls.
(c) Small house made of gold.
(d) Glass angels.

2. Who are the 'Jesus freaks' referred to in Chapter 1?
(a) Mentally ill patients.
(b) Unkempt, disheveled radicals.
(c) Roman Catholic nuns.
(d) Middle class white collar workers.

3. When does Joseph bring his family to Israel?
(a) After the Red Sea is parted.
(b) After Herod the Great dies.
(c) They never came back.
(d) When Jesus is 21.

4. How many times is the Augustus Caesar mentioned in the Bible?
(a) Ten times.
(b) One time.
(c) Thousand times.
(d) Fifty times.

5. Where does Yancey teach the Beatitudes?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) His son's preschool.
(c) Class at LaSalle Street Church in Chicago.
(d) Radio 101.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jesus' s first official act as an adult?

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

3. What does supersessionism mean?

4. What does Satan ask Jesus to turn a stone into?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what does Yancey say the Gospels assert that Jesus is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Yancey discover as he begins to study the Jesus of the Gospels?

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

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

7. What did Jesus look like?

8. What does Yancey say is the true meaning of Christmas?

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

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

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