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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. What example does Habermas use to explain how accounts of Jesus' resurrection could be valid without an eye witness?
(a) Archeologists study fossils but do not witness dinosaurs.
(b) Women do not generally lie.
(c) It was a miracle.
(d) The guard tried everything to find Jesus and could not.

2. What size crowd does the risen Jesus appear to when he addresses the apostles and Peter?
(a) About 1,000.
(b) About 5,000.
(c) About 500.
(d) About 100.

3. Which book in the Bible mentions two encounters with a risen Jesus?
(a) 1 Corinthians.
(b) Paul.
(c) Luke.
(d) Mark.

4. The author's witness with a Jewish background once viewed the New Testament as a guidebook for what group?
(a) The Communist party.
(b) The American Nazi party.
(c) The Democratic party.
(d) The German Reich.

5. Where was Jesus born?
(a) California.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Bethelhem.
(d) Egypt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took Jesus' body to the tomb?

2. According to Habermas, why weren't the sightings of Jesus after his death considered to be hallucinations?

3. What was Paul's reason for changing?

4. What kind of evidence convicted the man charged with blowing up the federal building in Oklahoma City?

5. What was the subject of Gary Habermas' doctorate dissertation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How important was the eyewitness testimony of the women visitors to Jesus' tomb during their time?

2. What is the swoon theory?

3. What was the societal role of women in the time of Jesus?

4. According to the author's witness of psychological evidence, what kind of emotions do people suffering with psychosis display?

5. What is the role of Joseph of Arimathea?

6. What is one way that the resurrection of Jesus changed the lives of Jewish believers?

7. How does writing the book affect the author?

8. After researching the medical evidence surrounding the death of Christ, what reason does the author determine was the reason that Jesus died?

9. When Lapides rebels against his family's religion, what does he turn to?

10. What is the importance of the willingness of the disciples to die for their beliefs?

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