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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. What does supersessionism mean?
(a) Suppression of religion is good.
(b) Super religion suppresses other lesser religion.
(c) There is no way to suppress Christianity.
(d) Some religions grow out of and supersede others.

2. What does Wim Wender makes films about?
(a) Angels.
(b) Nazi history.
(c) Temptations.
(d) Islamic Rituals.

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

4. What does Yancey say a major problem is in looking at the historical Jesus?
(a) Flash forward analysis.
(b) No historical understanding.
(c) Political agendas.
(d) Lack of language knowledge.

5. Where is the Sermon on the Mount in the Bible?
(a) Revelations 31.
(b) John 1.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Matthew 5-7.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Albert Schweitzer interpret the Sermon on the Mount?

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

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

4. According to Yancey, why are older black people happier than older white people?

5. Where does Virginia Stem Owens teach?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Yancey find the Beatitudes so difficult?

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

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

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

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

6. What language did Jesus speak growing up?

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

8. What did Jesus look like?

9. What were the Maccabeans fighting against?

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

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