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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. Who wrote Mere Christianity?

2. What does a leper in Jesus's time have to call out?

3. What do Peter and Judas have in common?

4. What leader beheads John the Baptist?

5. What miracle is the last great "sign"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Jesus leave behind?

4. What event of the Last Supper startles Yancey?

5. Why does Yancey title Chapter 11 "A Morning Beyond Belief?"

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

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

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

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

10. What is unusual about leprosy patients and their illness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Ultimately, what for Yancey is the difference that Jesus makes? Using Chapter 14, trace out the primary strain of hope that Yancey so profoundly connects to in Jesus. What is Yancey's final understanding of who Jesus is?

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