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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 church has made Pilate's wife a saint?
(a) The Greek Orthodox Church.
(b) The Anglican Church.
(c) The Roman Catholic Church.
(d) The Presbyterian Church.

2. Which Roman ruler sent out a decree that a census of the Roman world would be taken?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Caesar Augustus.
(c) Pontius Pilate.
(d) Marc Antony.

3. What was Mary Magdalene the first woman to see after Christ's death?
(a) His dead body.
(b) His empty tomb.
(c) The archangel Michael.
(d) The Roman soldiers who killed him.

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

5. To where did Potiphar send his Hebrew overseer as a result of his wife's lies about the servant?
(a) To the marketplace to sell him.
(b) To the pharoah's palace to work.
(c) To the river to send him far away.
(d) To prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the basis of what did Pilate's wife give her husband a warning?

2. What have some biblical commentators speculated that Mary Magdalene's devils were instead of demons?

3. From which of Jochebed's children did the Hebrew priesthood descend?

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

5. Which angel appeared to Mary at Nazareth and told her she would have a son?

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