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

2. What do the Essenes believe in?
(a) Pacificism, purity, and seperatation from society.
(b) Poetry, painting, and basket weaving.
(c) Essence of spirit came from drinking no water.
(d) Dionysian festivals of drunken merrymaking.

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

4. What does the word "gospel" mean?
(a) Good News.
(b) Book of rules.
(c) Good Riddance.
(d) God's spell.

5. According to Yancey, what is the primary emotion in most religions when one approaches God?
(a) Fear.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the treasurer for Jesus's disciples?

2. What does Jesus propose for those who look at a woman lustfully?

3. How does Albert Schweitzer interpret the Sermon on the Mount?

4. What type of Messiah is Jesus?

5. Where does Jesus spend his first years?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jesus recommend as a punishment for lustful thinking?

2. What were the Maccabeans fighting against?

3. What does Yancey say about parallel worlds in Chapter 1?

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

5. What may Satan have taken away from the confrontation with Jesus in the wilderness?

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

7. What does Yancey do with the extremism of Jesus?

8. What does Henri Nouwen do that is so unusual?

9. What did the students at Texas A & M think of the Beatitudes?

10. What is Jacob Neuser's primary objection to Jesus?

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