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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. Why did the Samaritan woman think it unusual for Jesus to talk with her?
(a) She was a leper and few people spoke to lepers.
(b) She was a beggar and most people ignored her.
(c) He was Jewish, and Samaritans and Jews did not socialize.
(d) Men in those days could not speak to women in public.

2. What was the name of Abraham's second wife?
(a) Leah.
(b) Priscilla.
(c) Keturah.
(d) Dinah.

3. What was Sapphira's greatest sin?
(a) Withholding part of the proceeds of the sale of her land.
(b) Lying to the Holy Spirit.
(c) Stealing a neighbor's necklace.
(d) Coveting a neighbor's riches.

4. What did Zacharias do for a living?
(a) He was a fisherman.
(b) He was a judge.
(c) He was a priest.
(d) He was a blacksmith.

5. What prophet multiplied the oil of an impoverished widow who had an unpaid debt for which her creditors wanted her to sell her sons as slaves?
(a) Jeremiah.
(b) Ezekiel.
(c) Elisha.
(d) Isaiah.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first person to proclaim Jesus as the Christ?

2. What was Naomi's relationship to Ruth?

3. What church has made Pilate's wife a saint?

4. To whom was Sapphira married?

5. Of what name was Joses the Greek from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Ahinoam?

2. How did Jesus heal the woman with the spirit of infirmity?

3. Who was Herodias, and what role did she have in the death of John the Baptist?

4. How did a dream about Christ affect Pontius Pilate's wife Claudia, and what did she advise her husband to do as a result?

5. How was Claudia honored by the Greek Orthodox Church?

6. How did Christ usually heal people, and what was different about the way he healed the Syro-Phoenician woman's daughter?

7. What does the fact that so many of the women mentioned in the Bible were never named indicate about the role of women in ancient Hebrew society?

8. How did Christ's encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well illustrate the universality of God's love?

9. How long did the woman with the issue of blood suffer from her condition, and how did she get healed?

10. Who was Anna, and what role did she have in Christ's life?

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