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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magazine is Jimmy Carter famously interviewed about lust in?
(a) Newsweek.
(b) Christianity Today.
(c) National Geographic.
(d) Playboy.

2. Who directs the silent classic from 1927 "King of Kings"?
(a) Monty Baraza.
(b) George Lucas.
(c) Cecil B. DeMille.
(d) George Barker.

3. When are the Gospels written?
(a) Jesus wrote them during his lifetime.
(b) We have no idea.
(c) After the death of Jesus.
(d) Before Jesus was born.

4. How does Yancey describe Jesus in Chapter 3?
(a) First century Jew with a phylactery on his wrist.
(b) Almost modern and American in appearance.
(c) A tall blonde man with blue eyes.
(d) Perfect image of a Christian man.

5. Where did Yancey grow up?
(a) Jerusalem, Israel.
(b) London, England.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Kansas City, Kansas.

6. What does the Gospel of Mark say about why Jesus chose the Twelve?
(a) "That night and day might be full of hope."
(b) "That they might write down what he says."
(c) "That they might be with him."
(d) "That the end might be the beginning."

7. Where does Yancey teach his film class on Jesus?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) LaSalle Street Church.
(c) 82nd Street YMCA in New York City.
(d) South Bend Indiana Presbyterian College.

8. How many emendations do the Pharisees add to the law?
(a) 5.
(b) 55.
(c) 1,521.
(d) 20,000.

9. What does Yancey think the church has turned Jesus into, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Larger than life figure.
(b) Raging Lion of Judah.
(c) Money-making idol.
(d) Boring and predictable person.

10. What does Yancey want to answer with this book, according to Chapter 1?
(a) What would Jesus do?
(b) Who was Jesus?
(c) What is the point of life?
(d) Why was there a Jesus?

11. What does Francois Mauriac strive to be?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Rich.
(c) Angry.
(d) Pure.

12. Who fights against Antiochus?
(a) Africans.
(b) Christians.
(c) Egyptians.
(d) Maccabeans.

13. What does Yancey give up as a result of the Sermon on the Mount?
(a) Eating chocolate.
(b) All his money.
(c) 1947 Jackie Robinson baseball card.
(d) Going to church.

14. Where did Henry Nouwen begin to work at the height of his writing career?
(a) Daybreak.
(b) Zondervan.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Eastern College.

15. How many Jews live in the Roman Empire in the first century?
(a) 8 million.
(b) 500 million.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 500.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Yancy in Chapter 5, why do people like being where Jesus is?

2. In Chapter 6, what does Yancey admit to being?

3. Who is in power in Palestine when Jesus is born?

4. What does communism consider religion to be?

5. How old was Tolstoy when he wrote Resurrection?

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