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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 Yancey learn from the kitten's death?

2. What was torn in two when Jesus died on the cross?

3. What are Samaritians called?

4. What did Martin Luther encourage his students to do?

5. What does Surgeon General Koop say the new leprosy is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is ironic about Jesus entering into Jerusalem on a donkey?

3. What does Yancey note about the end times?

4. Does Yancey think Jesus wanted to leave?

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

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

7. What does Jesus leave behind?

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

9. What event of the Last Supper startles Yancey?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do the Gospels mean when they identify Jesus as the Son of God and what then is the importance of his meeting with Satan in the wilderness? Would the meaning change if Jesus were simply a rabbi?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Yancey choose the title rabbi to most closely describe who the historical Jesus was? What does rabbi mean? How does Yancey describe what a rabbi is? Why is Jesus a rabbi?

Essay Topic 3

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

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