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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 does Satan ask Jesus to turn a stone into?

2. Who are the 'Jesus freaks' referred to in Chapter 1?

3. Who does the German Christian Church admire in 1933?

4. How does Albert Schweitzer interpret the Sermon on the Mount?

5. How many ordinary activities do the Pharisees outlaw on the Sabbath?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the concept from Barbara Tuchman of "no flash-forwards"?

3. What were the Maccabeans fighting against?

4. Why does Yancey start Chapter 5 with a quote from Napoleon?

5. What did the students at Texas A & M think of the Beatitudes?

6. What did Jesus look like?

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

8. What is the Golden Rule?

9. What is the Temptation in the desert?

10. What is Jacob Neuser's primary objection to Jesus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Free will is a major concept in Christianity and Yancey ties this theological concept strongly to the temptation of Christ in the wilderness.

Choose one of the following to write about.

1) How does the concept of free will fit in with the temptation of Christ in the wilderness?

2) Why would God send a helpless, suffering Messiah?

3) Why does Jesus have so little power and not accept the power Satan would offer him?

Essay Topic 2

What are the basic characteristics of the sub-groups within the Jewish culture: Essenes, Zealots, Sadducees, and Pharisees?

Describe each and what part they played in the culture of Jesus's day.

Essay Topic 3

What are the two reasons Yancey gives for Jesus investing so much in the 12 disciples? What is Jesus revealing about himself in his choice and commitment to his disciples?

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