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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 changes politically with the death of Jesus?

2. How does Jesus command Jairus's daughter to come back to life?

3. What three things does Jesus ask his disciples to do in memory of him?

4. What do the Pharisees think of Jesus?

5. What does "Deus Absconditus" mean?

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

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

4. What was Jesus's first miracle?

5. What did Jesus mean by the Kingdom of God?

6. What does Yancey notice about the last parables that Jesus tells?

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

8. Why is the day of crucifixion called "Good Friday"?

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

10. What did Yancey's study of the Old Testament teach him about the word Messiah?

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

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

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?

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