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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 "Deus Absconditus" mean?
(a) God Absolutely.
(b) Where is God now?
(c) Absence of Deus.
(d) Deity Neigh.

2. What do the Pharisees think of Jesus?
(a) Wise.
(b) Uncouth.
(c) True leader.
(d) Deeply intellectual.

3. What does Yancey think of what the church brings?
(a) Both light and darkness.
(b) He thinks the church should be destroyed.
(c) It is all good.
(d) It is all bad.

4. What is a basic reason Yancey is open to believing the Easter story?
(a) He wants it to be true.
(b) It has lasted 2000 years.
(c) Most people do believe it.
(d) It is based in proven fact.

5. For Yancey, what was Jesus obscured by in the churches he grew up in?
(a) American politics.
(b) Racism, intolerance, and petty legalism.
(c) Evangelical fervor.
(d) Modern music and loose morals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Yancey says that by ascending Jesus took the risk of what?

3. What bombshell does Jesus drop during the last supper?

4. What is missing from Thomas Jefferson's version of the New Testament?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What event of the Last Supper startles Yancey?

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

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

5. What does Jesus leave behind?

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

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

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

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

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

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