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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 did Jesus believe was the true power?
(a) Love.
(b) Holy Spirit.
(c) Anger.
(d) God's thunderbolts.

2. How long is Jesus with the disciples between the Resurrection and Ascension?
(a) 1 hour.
(b) Three days.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) 1 year.

3. What does Yancey criticize about the church in Chapter 8?
(a) Church is full of disreputable people.
(b) Too much emphasis on prayer.
(c) Church attracts only respectable types.
(d) Not enough pressure to give money.

4. What is missing from Thomas Jefferson's version of the New Testament?
(a) Faith.
(b) Disciples.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Miracles.

5. What is unusual about the disease of leprosy?
(a) Leprosy only occurs in hot climates.
(b) There is no cause.
(c) A leper feels no physical pain.
(d) Lepers lose the ability to sing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yancey think Easter makes Jesus?

2. What is Frederick Buechner struck by in reading about Jesus's appearances after the resurrection?

3. What did the 1st century Zealots want to do?

4. What worries Yancey about modern Christians and politicians?

5. Why does the leprosy patient cry when Dr. Brand greets him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Yancey say about how Easter affects who Jesus is for us?

2. What event of the Last Supper startles Yancey?

3. What did Mother Teresa say about what she tried to provide for the ill?

4. What does Jesus say about the woman who comes into the respectable house of Simon and wipes Jesus's feet with her hair?

5. What did the Pharisees of Jesus's day think of him?

6. What is the one miracle that is in all four biblical gospels?

7. What does Yancey note about the end times?

8. What is the ultimate portrait of Jesus that Yancey comes up with?

9. What does Jesus say to Pilate when asked if he is the King of the Jews?

10. What does Yancey notice about the last parables that Jesus tells?

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