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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 the 1st century Zealots want to do?
(a) Leave and start a new country in Africa.
(b) Ascend into heaven.
(c) Take over the religious life of the Jews.
(d) Fight the Romans.

2. What is the name of Yancey's kitten that died?
(a) Boots.
(b) Rose.
(c) Cindy.
(d) Tinkerbell.

3. According to Yancey, how many times does the Qur'an apply the word "love" to God?
(a) Endless times.
(b) 1,001.
(c) None.
(d) 15.

4. What is Frederick Buechner struck by in reading about Jesus's appearances after the resurrection?
(a) Many people saw him.
(b) Both men and women saw him.
(c) Unglamorous quality of it.
(d) Very few people saw him.

5. What did the first Christians stake everything on?
(a) Paul's theology.
(b) The Resurrection.
(c) A new religion.
(d) Nothing, they were utterly lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yancey say is the message of Jesus's miracles?

2. What does a leper in Jesus's time have to call out?

3. Why does Zacchaeus climb the tree?

4. What is the feeling of the resurrection stories in the Bible?

5. How does Jesus command Jairus's daughter to come back to life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What event of the Last Supper startles Yancey?

2. When Yancey's kitten is killed, what does he, the child, learn?

3. Why was Jesus's attitude towards women so revolutionary?

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

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

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

7. What does Yancey reveal in Chapter 11 about why he believes in the resurrection?

8. What did Jesus mean by the Kingdom of God?

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

10. What does Yancey note about the end times?

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