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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 Yancey learn from the kitten's death?

2. What bombshell does Jesus drop during the last supper?

3. What did the first Christians stake everything on?

4. How often is the Most Holy Place entered by the High Priest?

5. What does Surgeon General Koop say the new leprosy is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Jesus's first miracle?

2. What did Mother Teresa say about what she tried to provide for the ill?

3. What event of the Last Supper startles Yancey?

4. What does Yancey notice about the last parables that Jesus tells?

5. What does Jesus say about the woman who comes into the respectable house of Simon and wipes Jesus's feet with her hair?

6. What does Jesus leave behind?

7. What is the one miracle that is in all four biblical gospels?

8. Who betrays Jesus to the Jewish and Roman authorities?

9. What is the ultimate portrait of Jesus that Yancey comes up with?

10. What did the Zealots want to do in the 1st century?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is meant by "dangled promises" in terms of the Beatitudes? What are the promises?

Essay Topic 2

Free will is a major concept in Christianity and Yancey ties this theological concept strongly to the temptation of Christ in the wilderness.

Choose one of the following to write about.

1) How does the concept of free will fit in with the temptation of Christ in the wilderness?

2) Why would God send a helpless, suffering Messiah?

3) Why does Jesus have so little power and not accept the power Satan would offer him?

Essay Topic 3

What are the basic characteristics of the sub-groups within the Jewish culture: Essenes, Zealots, Sadducees, and Pharisees?

Describe each and what part they played in the culture of Jesus's day.

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