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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Adah?

2. How did the woman with the issue of blood fare after all of her physicians and medicines?

3. Who were Salome's children?

4. With what color hair have master painters depicted Mary Magdalene?

5. Why did Elisabeth not want to name her baby after Zacharias?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Peninnah?

2. Who was Dorcas, and what miracle did Peter perform for her?

3. What request did Salome, the mother of James and John, make of Christ, and what surprising answer did Christ give her?

4. What was Elisabeth's relationship to Mary the mother of Jesus, and what parallels did each woman have in the birth of their children?

5. Who was Ahinoam?

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

7. What message did the angel Gabriel give Zacharias and his wife Elisabeth, and what happened to Zacharias when he didn't believe the angel's message?

8. What illness did Simon Peter's mother-in-law develop, and how did Jesus heal her?

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

10. What encounters did Mary and Martha and their brother Lazarus have with Christ?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast any three of the women healed by Christ in the New Testament. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the depiction of women as temptresses or corrupters of men in the Bible using Eve, Potiphar's wife, and Delilah as examples.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the qualities of a virtuous woman listed in the book of Proverbs and discussed by Edith Deen in her book All the Women of the Bible. Give two examples of women in the Bible who exemplified these virtues and two examples of women in the Bible who did not exemplify these virtues.

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