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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Yancey drawn to Jesus, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Jesus is the dividing point of Yancey's life.
(b) Yancey can't say why.
(c) Jesus's teaching is so complicated.
(d) It is God's will.

2. Who writes the play "The Man Born to be King?"
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) George MacDonald.
(c) Dorothy Sayers.
(d) Thomas Merton.

3. What does Yancey find remarkable about Mary?
(a) Managed to have a baby on her own.
(b) Accepted Jesus on his own terms, regardless of the cost.
(c) Too young to have children.
(d) Jewish and not well born.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what does Yancey say the Gospels assert that Jesus is?
(a) God's own son.
(b) Good friend.
(c) Good teacher.
(d) Nice Guy.

5. What does Satan ask Jesus to turn a stone into?
(a) Air.
(b) Water.
(c) Loaf of bread.
(d) Dove.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Gospel of Mark say about why Jesus chose the Twelve?

2. How many times is the Augustus Caesar mentioned in the Bible?

3. What does Antiochus try to do to the Jews?

4. When is the document by Publius Lentulus forged?

5. Who does the German Christian Church admire in 1933?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Yancey say is the true meaning of Christmas?

2. What is the concept from Barbara Tuchman of "no flash-forwards"?

3. What were the Maccabeans fighting against?

4. What is it that restores Jesus's humanity for Yancey?

5. What does Yancey say the Communist party had trouble with?

6. What are the three levels of the Beatitudes in Chapter 6?

7. Who is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson?

8. What is the Golden Rule?

9. Why does Yancey find the Beatitudes so difficult?

10. What is the one word label Yancey would bestow upon Jesus?

(see the answer keys)

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