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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 question does David have at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Why do people throw spears?
(b) Where do you hide when someone throws a spear at you?
(c) How do you avoid being hit by a spear?
(d) What do you do when someone throws a spear at you?

2. Who is Recorder?
(a) An unborn destiny.
(b) An angel.
(c) A god.
(d) A demon.

3. Essentially, David enrolls into the school of what at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Fulfillment.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Brokenness.
(d) Sorrow.

4. What items does David bring with him while he tends to the sheep?
(a) A sling shot and an instrument.
(b) A bow and arrow, and a sling shot.
(c) A sling shot and some pebbles.
(d) A sling shot and a camera.

5. What does David do for the king in the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) David sings to the king.
(b) David dances for the king.
(c) David reads to the king.
(d) David tells jokes to the king.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Saul throw at David in Chapter 4?

2. According to the author in Chapter 6, if one throws a thrown spear back, they are also a candidate for what?

3. What job do Jesse's oldest sons have?

4. Who is David speaking to when he says, "I am your shepherd, and God is mine"?

5. Who runs to David at the beginning of Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the tone of the Prologue? How does the Prologue set the tone for the novel?

2. What can be inferred as to why the author does not detail the battle between David and Goliath?

3. Briefly discuss Saul's feelings towards David.

4. Distinguish God from Gabriel.

5. At the end of Chapter 3, what did God not have, but very much wanted?

6. What genre is "A Tale of Three Kings" classified as, and what time period was the Christian community undergoing when this was written?

7. What was Recorder's purpose in the Prologue?

8. What does the Prologue indicate or foreshadow?

9. According to the author in Chapter 1, what two distinctions does the youngest son of any family bear?

10. Discuss the two different types of people that are introduced in the Prologue.

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