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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the believer describe the "realm of the dead"?
(a) As nothing.
(b) A beautiful meadow.
(c) A path of light.
(d) Just like home, only cleaner and better.

2. Why does Barabbas choose to attend the crucifixion?
(a) He wants to see the man who took his place.
(b) His friends encourage him to go.
(c) He feels a strange power prompting him to attend the crucifixion.
(d) He is swept along with the crowd.

3. What do the men do after returning from their brief excursions?
(a) Wash their hands.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Eat and talk more.
(d) Greet Barabbas.

4. To what does the fat woman attribute Barabbas's odd behavior after he returns from the village on the mountain?
(a) He is lying.
(b) He trying to become a better man.
(c) He has become insane like the man on the mountain.
(d) He has been posessed by the crucified man's spirit.

5. Whom does Barabbas continue to seek out while he stays in Jerusalem?
(a) The potter.
(b) The hare-lipped girl.
(c) The followers of Jesus.
(d) The fat woman.

6. What does Barabbas do before everyone leaves the low-vaulted room?
(a) He speaks to the hare-lipped girl.
(b) He speaks to the group.
(c) He eats bread and drinks wine.
(d) He slips out unnoticed.

7. Why does the red-beaded man feel guilty?
(a) He betrayed his Master to the Roman soldiers.
(b) He betrayed his Master by denying him.
(c) He stole money from the disciples.
(d) He lied to Barabbas.

8. Which follower of Jesus is Barabbas invited to meet?
(a) The apostle Paul.
(b) A man whom Jesus raised from the dead.
(c) Mary, the mother of Jesus.
(d) Mary Magdalene, a follower of Jesus.

9. Why doesn't Barabbas believe Jesus is the Son of God?
(a) He does not believe in miracles.
(b) He saw Jesus, and he looked like a man, not a god.
(c) He feels that God would not bother with unclean humanity.
(d) He feels the son of God would not have allowed himself to die.

10. What did the hare-lipped girl not ask Jesus to do for her?
(a) Heal her deformed lip.
(b) Make her wealthy.
(c) Make Barabbas love her.
(d) Feed her.

11. After Barabbas returns to the believers after his visit to the village on the mountain, what does he tell the believers?
(a) The man on the mountain is posessed.
(b) The man on the mountain is insane.
(c) Jesus had no right to raise the believer from the dead.
(d) Jesus did the right thing, but that doesn't make him the Son of God.

12. Why doesn't Barabbas believe that the man on the cross is the Messiah?
(a) Because the man didn't save himself.
(b) Because Barabbas is too cynical.
(c) Because Barabbas dislikes the Jews.
(d) Because Barabbas knows he is guilty.

13. Where does the hare-lipped girl live?
(a) With the fat woman.
(b) In the low-vaulted room.
(c) Near the temple.
(d) At the Dung Gate.

14. Whom does Barabbas see near his hiding place?
(a) The hare-lipped girl.
(b) Angels.
(c) The red-bearded man.
(d) Two Roman soldiers.

15. Why does Barabbas feel uncomfortable with the group?
(a) He is the only man in the group.
(b) He wishes to steal, but cannot.
(c) He is not one of the group.
(d) They stare angrily at him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barabbas think has happened to Jesus' body?

2. What does Barabbas look like?

3. At the end of the evening, who is left with the Fat Woman?

4. What did Jesus tell the hare-lipped girl she would do?

5. What explanation did the the red-bearded man give for the crucifixion?

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