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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 Jesus say when Pilate asks him if he is the King of the Jews?

2. For Yancey, what was Jesus obscured by in the churches he grew up in?

3. What does a Pharisee do according to Greg, in Chapter 8?

4. What changes politically with the death of Jesus?

5. How are Roman citizens executed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What event of the Last Supper startles Yancey?

9. What was Jesus's first miracle?

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

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

Briefly describe the profile of Jesus that Yancey lays out in Chapter 2. What word associations does he choose and why?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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