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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. For Yancey, what was Jesus obscured by in the churches he grew up in?
(a) Evangelical fervor.
(b) American politics.
(c) Racism, intolerance, and petty legalism.
(d) Modern music and loose morals.
2. Why does Zacchaeus climb the tree?
(a) He is too short to see Jesus.
(b) To drop things on people's heads.
(c) Wants more attention for himself.
(d) To get away from Jesus and the crowd.
3. Who were the first witnesses to the resurrection?
(a) Passing children.
(b) Apostle Paul.
(c) John and Judas.
(d) The women who went to the tomb.
4. Where was George Buttrick serving as chaplain?
(a) Leper colony.
(b) U.S. Army.
(c) Harvard.
(d) White House.
5. How does Jesus command Jairus's daughter to come back to life?
(a) "My child, get up!"
(b) "Satan, get behind thee."
(c) "She is only asleep."
(d) "Rise, and be well!"
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Jesus's first miracle?
2. Yancey says that by ascending Jesus took the risk of what?
3. What word is on the grandmother's tombstone under the live oak tree?
4. What changes politically with the death of Jesus?
5. Who wrote the Japanese novel Silence?
Short Essay Questions
1. Does Yancey think Jesus wanted to leave?
2. What is the ultimate portrait of Jesus that Yancey comes up with?
3. What does Jesus say to Pilate when asked if he is the King of the Jews?
4. What does Yancey notice about the last parables that Jesus tells?
5. What is the one miracle that is in all four biblical gospels?
6. What does Yancey say about how Easter affects who Jesus is for us?
7. Who is the only named person in Jesus's parables?
8. Why does Yancey title Chapter 11 "A Morning Beyond Belief?"
9. When Yancey's kitten is killed, what does he, the child, learn?
10. What does Jesus say about the woman who comes into the respectable house of Simon and wipes Jesus's feet with her hair?
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