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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a Pharisee do according to Greg, in Chapter 8?
(a) Ruins heaven.
(b) Makes up rules.
(c) Looks down on other people.
(d) Follows God's law.

2. What is unusual about the disease of leprosy?
(a) Lepers lose the ability to sing.
(b) A leper feels no physical pain.
(c) Leprosy only occurs in hot climates.
(d) There is no cause.

3. Who defends Jesus at his trials?
(a) Paul, Silas, and Peter.
(b) Judas and Herod.
(c) A large group of Pharisees.
(d) No one.

4. What do modern Christians call the final week of Jesus?
(a) Gethsemane.
(b) Holy Week.
(c) End Game.
(d) Walk to the cross.

5. Why has the name Judas died out?
(a) He was a notorious traitor.
(b) Too close to "Jesus."
(c) Sounds like a girl's name.
(d) Reminds people of money lending.

6. In Jesus's, day what were the Jews looking for?
(a) Scientific knowledge.
(b) The end time and a Messiah to save them.
(c) Biblical narrative.
(d) Military might.

7. What was Jesus's first miracle?
(a) Turning water into wine.
(b) Resurrection.
(c) Raising Lazarus from the dead.
(d) Feeding of the 5000.

8. What does Yancey think Easter makes Jesus?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Mysterious.
(d) More intelligent.

9. Where does Shusaku Endo grow up?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Japan.
(c) Boston.
(d) Korea.

10. Yancey says that by ascending Jesus took the risk of what?
(a) Allowing Satan to rule.
(b) Never returning.
(c) Not making a difference in the world.
(d) Being forgotten.

11. What does Yancey say is the message of Jesus's miracles?
(a) Only God can heal.
(b) Miracles happen randomly.
(c) Early glimpses of what is to come.
(d) Jesus is God.

12. What temptation has the church faced since the time of Constantine?
(a) Being too much a part of the mainstream powers.
(b) Supporting unjust regimes.
(c) Being the morals police of society.
(d) Having too much money.

13. What does the Bible say about why Judas betrayed Jesus?
(a) He wanted to be Jesus.
(b) Satan entered him.
(c) Jealousy was in him.
(d) He wanted money.

14. What changes politically with the death of Jesus?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Jews begin to rule again in Palestine.
(c) The Roman Empire falls very quickly.
(d) Herod the Great is murdered.

15. Why does the leprosy patient cry when Dr. Brand greets him?
(a) No one had touched him in many years.
(b) He felt lost and alone.
(c) He was frightened.
(d) It hurt when Dr. Brand shook his hand.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Mere Christianity?

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

4. Who writes the poem that opens Chapter 12?

5. What is the Ascension?

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