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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Mary Magdalene & Claudia - Pilate's Wife.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have some biblical commentators speculated that Mary Magdalene's devils were instead of demons?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) A nervous disorder.
(c) A split personality.
(d) Seven tumors.

2. How do some scholars explain the siblings of Jesus mentioned in the gospel of Mark?
(a) As nephews and nieces Joseph raised as his own children.
(b) As Joseph's children from a wife he had before Mary.
(c) As Jesus' spiritual rather than physical siblings.
(d) As orphaned children Joseph and Mary adopted.

3. What did an angel ask Mary Magdalene after Christ's death?
(a) Why Jesus had been killed.
(b) Why she wept.
(c) Why she had come to Jesus' tomb.
(d) Where Jesus was.

4. Who adopted Jochebed's baby after finding him floating in an ark made of bulrushes?
(a) An Egyptian priest.
(b) The Hittite King.
(c) The Egyptian Pharoah's daughter.
(d) Abraham.

5. On the basis of what did Pilate's wife give her husband a warning?
(a) A dream.
(b) Gossip from other women.
(c) A message from archangel Michael.
(d) An overheard conversation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mary's relationship to Elisabeth?

2. What name has traditionally been given to Pilate's wife?

3. What was the name of Jochebed's daughter?

4. When Tamar's first husband Er died, who did she take as her second husband?

5. Who did Jesus say were his mother and brethren?

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