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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the movie that Yancey saw in 1971 that portrayed a very different kind of Jesus?

2. How many Jews live in the Roman Empire in the first century?

3. What is the image Yancey first has of Jesus?

4. What does Ivan Karamazov write?

5. Where are the headquarters of the Wycliffe Bible translators?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Yancey's purpose in writing The Jesus I Thought I Knew?

2. Why does Yancey grow up not knowing any Jewish people?

3. Who is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson?

4. What are the Beatitudes?

5. What may Satan have taken away from the confrontation with Jesus in the wilderness?

6. What does Yancey say about parallel worlds in Chapter 1?

7. What is it that restores Jesus's humanity for Yancey?

8. What does Yancey object to in sentimental Christmas card portrayals of Jesus?

9. What does Yancey discover as he begins to study the Jesus of the Gospels?

10. Where did Philip Yancey first become acquainted with the stories of Jesus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the contrast that Yancey draws between the modern American depiction of Christmas and what he understands might have been the actual experience? What is the modern culture missing about who Jesus was in terms of his birth?

Essay Topic 2

The book begins with a personal account of Yancey's life in Christianity.

1) What is Yancey's personal story in terms of his understanding of Jesus?

2) How does his history growing up in the church affect this book?

3) Why does he use his personal experience?

Essay Topic 3

What does Yancey want to confront the present day church with in terms of the issue of being Pharisees? What does he believe Jesus would say to the modern church about its exclusive nature?

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