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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 is Barabbas planning on doing in Chapter 1?
(a) Arresting Mary Magdalene.
(b) Stopping an execution.
(c) Rounding up Jesus's disciples.
(d) Arresting Jesus.

2. What does Jesus believe about the Messiah?
(a) He believes that people will not be ready when the Messiah comes.
(b) He does not believe that the Messiah is coming.
(c) He believes that he will die alone, crowned with thorns, atop a mountain.
(d) He believes that he is the Messiah.

3. How does Mary Magdalene feel about God?
(a) She believes God exists, but does not believe in the same God Jesus does.
(b) She is an atheist.
(c) She believes in God, but she does not practice a religion.
(d) She hates God because he has kept her from being happy with Jesus.

4. What does Mary Magdalene dare Jesus to admit?
(a) He is not the Messiah.
(b) Fear drives him into the desert.
(c) He is afraid to leave his mother's house.
(d) He loves her.

5. Jacob sees Jesus in Magdala, and mentally compares him to whom?
(a) Judas.
(b) Zebedee.
(c) Moses.
(d) Elijah.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who pronounces Abbot Joachim dead?

2. What does Simeon reveal to reassure the people?

3. What happens to Jesus in his dreams?

4. In Chapter 6, Jesus leaves home to do what?

5. The ants, the lizard and the butterflies convince Jesus of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Judas Iscariot visit Jesus at the beginning of the novel?

2. What is the Curse?

3. What does Jesus wonder about his dreams?

4. What does Jesus tells Simeon at the end of Chapter 10?

5. Why is Abbot Joachim dying?

6. Why does the mob chase Mary Magdalene to Capernaum?

7. In Chapter 11, what does Simeon say to Jesus about the possibility of Jesus being the Messiah?

8. What does the Zealot do immediately before and during his crucifixion?

9. What are Jesus's beliefs regarding the Messiah at the beginning of the novel?

10. Why does Judas decide not to kill Jesus at the monastery?

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