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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Verdict of History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Strobel discover when he reads some of the works that have been excluded from the New Testament?
(a) They are interesting but not informative.
(b) They are too far removed from the time Jesus actually lived and walked the earth.
(c) They are informative but not interesting.
(d) They are written by people who were not apostles.

2. Metzger compares the Bible to what era of other literature?
(a) Elizabethan.
(b) Ancient.
(c) Classic.
(d) Medieval.

3. Because the Bible repeats and confirms some aspects of Jesus' life and death, what theory does their evidence erode?
(a) Lengendary development.
(b) Circumstantial proof.
(c) The swoon theory.
(d) Theory of evolution.

4. What is significant about the size of the crowd to which the risen Jesus appeared?
(a) They were all Baptist.
(b) They were of many different races.
(c) It created a large number of eyewitnesses.
(d) They all had stopped believing in him.

5. What criterion does Boyd use in determining that the Jesus in the Bible is not the Jesus who is son of God?
(a) Function and reliability.
(b) Naturalism and functionalism.
(c) Quantitative and qualitative reasoning.
(d) Dissimilarity and multiple attestation.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Blomberg, what is the gospel based on?

2. What changes the way the author thinks about Christ and Christianity?

3. Witness William Craig's specialty is writing about the intersection of what three aspects of life?

4. What types of criteria does Craig apply to the Bible to test its reliability?

5. What means written by an apostle or followers of the apostles?

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