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

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

3. Yancey says that by ascending Jesus took the risk of what?
(a) Never returning.
(b) Not making a difference in the world.
(c) Allowing Satan to rule.
(d) Being forgotten.

4. When Jesus departs, where does he leave the keys to the kingdom, according to Yancey?
(a) He gives it to Peter.
(b) He doesn't leave any keys.
(c) In our fumbling hands.
(d) To his mother Mary.

5. What does a Pharisee do according to Greg, in Chapter 8?
(a) Makes up rules.
(b) Looks down on other people.
(c) Follows God's law.
(d) Ruins heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yancey think Easter makes Jesus?

2. What do the Pharisees think of Jesus?

3. What does Yancey criticize about the church in Chapter 8?

4. What do modern Christians call the final week of Jesus?

5. What does the Bible say about why Judas betrayed Jesus?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is ironic about Jesus entering into Jerusalem on a donkey?

3. What does Yancey note about the end times?

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. Who betrays Jesus to the Jewish and Roman authorities?

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

7. What event of the Last Supper startles Yancey?

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

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

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

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