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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 Jesus propose for those who look at a woman lustfully?

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

3. Where did Yancey grow up?

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

5. What does Yancey do for snowbound weeks in Colorado?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Yancey's interpretation of why God decided not to come in clouds of glory and fix everything?

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

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

4. What does Yancey discover as he begins to study the Jesus of the Gospels?

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

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

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

8. What are the Beatitudes?

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

10. What language did Jesus speak growing up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What are the two reasons Yancey gives for Jesus investing so much in the 12 disciples? What is Jesus revealing about himself in his choice and commitment to his disciples?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Yancey see the miracles of Jesus as signs? What are they signs of and how does that function in the larger understanding of who Jesus is?

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