1. was a virgin chosen by God and impregnated by the Holy Spirit.
2. was raped by a Roman soldier and made pregnant with Jesus.
3. conceived Jesus with Joseph out of wedlock.
4. had sexual relations with another man while betrothed to Joseph.

1. was born in a manger in Bethlehem.
2. was born in Nazareth, at home.
3. is a fictional character.
4. was born somewhere in what is now Israel but we’re not sure where.

1. came to worship Jesus by following a star in the East.
2. are purely legendary and made up by Matthew to demonstrate Jesus’ significance to the Gentiles.
3. were created by Matthew to fulfill prophecy in the Book of Isaiah
4. may have followed a documented supernova to Bethlehem, but it had nothing to do with Jesus.

1. Jesus walked on water.
2. It's impossible to know because the way the story is written suggests it is fiction.
3. Jesus walked on barely submerged rocks, causing the disciples to think he was walking on water.
4. Jesus didn’t walk on water, but his presence was so arresting that his disciples projected him walking on water.

1. a true tale of how Jesus fed a large crowd with a few loaves of bread and two fish.
2. an inspiring story of how Jesus taught people to share their food with each other.
3. propaganda inspiring people to become Christian by assuring them they’d always get enough to eat.
4. a symbolic narrative emphasizing Jesus is "the bread of life."

1. touched lepers and literally cured them.
2. touched lepers and spiritually cured them, even though he didn’t physically cure them.
3. touched lepers and brought them back to their community, even though he didn’t cure them.
4. cured lepers by hypnosis and other ways that modern medicine doesn’t understand.
5. couldn’t heal lepers any more than anybody else could.

1. Yes
2. No
3. Maybe
4. Doesn't matter

1. a first-century Middle Eastern peasant: swarthy, bearded, short and skinny.
2. a tall, blue-eyed "perfect" man.
3. a black North African man.
4. impossible to know because Galilee was ethnically mixed.

1. married because almost all Jewish men at the time were married.
2. single and celibate.
3. gay.
4. in a relationship with Mary Magdalene.

1. describes Jesus actually being tempted by the devil.
2. reflects an hallucinatory experience.
3. is a symbolic narrative and not an actual event.
4. is a mere legend.

1. he knew he would be crucified for saying he was the "Son of Man."
2. he thought it was possible the authorities would kill him for blasphemy.
3. he thought he might be killed because he was a political threat to the authorities.
4. he had no idea if the authorities knew who he was.

1. A narrow circle of the Jewish ruling elite in collaboration with the Roman government
2. Jewish priests
3. The Roman government

1. about the importance of forgiveness and love.
2. about how to attain eternal life through belief in him.
3. about the Kingdom of God.
4. a voice of peasant social protest.

1. Heaven.
2. a peasant utopia.
3. a revolutionary slogan encouraging his countrymen to revolt against Rome.
4. a relationship with God and others.

1. Yes
2. No. Judas was a fictional character made up by a Gospel-writer to blame Jews for Jesus’ death.
3. Maybe. Judas could have been one of Jesus’ disciples because it was a common name.
4. Impossible to know

1. Yes. It happened on Good Friday.
2. Yes, but the Gospels aren’t clear about the details.
3. Maybe, but the Gospels contradict each other about the details.
4. Impossible to know

1. as a political revolutionary.
2. for blasphemy because he called himself the "Son of Man."
3. because he was a public nuisance.
4. no one knows how Jesus died, but early Christians made up a story to turn him into a martyr.

1. he died for humanity's sins.
2. he kept the integrity of his belief in "the least of these" to the very end.
3. It wasn't important. He died because the authorities caught him and used him as an example.

1. Yes, in a tomb.
2. No, he was left on the cross for the dogs and crows.
3. Impossible to know
4. Yes, in a common pit for crucified felons.
5. Yes, but his body was taken from the tomb and reburied someplace else--which is why some people thought he was resurrected.

1. Jesus’ body returned from the dead
2. Jesus awakening in the tomb after being thought dead, getting up and leaving.
3. a story made up by early Christians symbolizing his divinity, like a rising god.
4. a figure of speech for his continued influence after his death.
5. an internal spiritual experience of the disciples misunderstood as a literal event.
6. Impossible to explain