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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 was torn in two when Jesus died on the cross?
(a) God's spirit.
(b) The curtain of the temple.
(c) The heart of his mother.
(d) The sky.

2. What does Yancey learn from the kitten's death?
(a) Life isn't fair.
(b) We are all fragile.
(c) Death is irreversible.
(d) There aren't always answers.

3. Why has the name Judas died out?
(a) Sounds like a girl's name.
(b) Reminds people of money lending.
(c) He was a notorious traitor.
(d) Too close to "Jesus."

4. What does the priest give out to everyone at the Greek Orthodox Easter service?
(a) Memorial coins.
(b) An empty cross.
(c) Greek Bibles.
(d) Three eggs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Zacchaeus's profession?

2. Who is it that has applied the most layers of dirt and grime on Jesus?

3. How do traditional Jews say the name of God?

4. What changes politically with the death of Jesus?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is the only named person in Jesus's parables?

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 is the one miracle that is in all four biblical gospels?

6. Who betrays Jesus to the Jewish and Roman authorities?

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

8. What does Jesus's death on the cross bridge, theologically speaking?

9. What does Yancey note about the end times?

10. What is the significance of the grandmother's tombstone, which says, "Waiting"?

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