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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 many Jews live in the Roman Empire in the first century?
(a) 500 million.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 8 million.
(d) 500.

2. What does Jesus refuse to do with Satan?
(a) Destroy him.
(b) Play by his rules.
(c) Use his power.
(d) Listen to him.

3. In Chapter 5, what is the one word Yancey chooses to describe Jesus best?
(a) Mystery man.
(b) Jewish Messiah.
(c) Man of God.
(d) Rabbi.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many emendations do the Pharisees add to the law?

2. How does Yancey describe Jesus in Chapter 3?

3. How many times does Jesus say to forgive a brother?

4. Who writes For the Time Being?

5. When does Yancey first get acquainted with Jesus?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Yancey find the Beatitudes so difficult?

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

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

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

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

6. What language did Jesus speak growing up?

7. What is Jacob Neuser's primary objection to Jesus?

8. Who is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson?

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

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

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