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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sahak talk to the overseer about when questioned about his prayer activities?
(a) His wounded leg.
(b) The harsh conditions in the mine.
(c) God, Jesus, and the Christian faith.
(d) His miracle.

2. What explanation does Barabbas give the governor for having "Christos Iesus" inscribed on the back of his medallion?
(a) He wants to believe, but does not.
(b) Sahak offered him food in return for the inscription.
(c) The medallion was inscribed when he got it.
(d) He belongs to Jesus.

3. Who is the "great prophet" that Sahak refers to?
(a) Mohammed.
(b) John.
(c) Ra.
(d) Jesus.

4. What religious philosophy does the overseer have?
(a) Worship no one and worry about nothing.
(b) One God for all men.
(c) Worship all gods so none of them will be offended.
(d) Worship the state that takes care of you.

5. Who might Barabbas have joined that hated the Jerusalem temple, priests and scribes?
(a) The Samaritans.
(b) His old band of thieves.
(c) The Moabites.
(d) The Pharisees.

6. How does Eliahu die?
(a) The Roman crucify him.
(b) Barbabbas hurls him off a cliff.
(c) The Christians stone him.
(d) The fat woman poisions him.

7. What might Barabbas have been doing in Gerizim?
(a) Making clay pots.
(b) Languishing in jail.
(c) Praying at the temple.
(d) Sacrificing a lamb on the Passover.

8. Why are Barabbas and Sahak called to the Roman governor's palace?
(a) To show the governor his scarred leg.
(b) To explain the inscription on the back of their medallions.
(c) To be punished for attempting to escape.
(d) To explain Sahak's claims about the end of the world.

9. How did Barabbas meet the hare-lipped girl?
(a) She cared for him when his leg was wounded.
(b) He captured her on a raid.
(c) Her father was a thief.
(d) At the fat woman's house.

10. When the band of thieves discover that Barabbas is missing, where do they search for him?
(a) Near the place where Eliahu died.
(b) In Jerusalem.
(c) Near the hare-lipped girl's grave.
(d) In the cave that was his old home.

11. What does the band of thieves do when they realize that Barabbas is nowhere to be found?
(a) They grieve his loss for three days.
(b) They travel to Jerusalem to seek out the fat woman.
(c) They go back to their business.
(d) They travel north.

12. What do the other slaves in the mill wear?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Leather jerkins.
(c) Slave uniforms.
(d) Plain linen robes.

13. What information does Sahak reveal to the one-eyed slave?
(a) The world is about to end.
(b) God will return and that all slaves will be freed.
(c) Miracles are all around him.
(d) He and Barabbas are going to attempt escape.

14. What weapon does Barabbas use to kill the man by the stoning pit?
(a) A push.
(b) A knife.
(c) A thin rope.
(d) A stone.

15. How old is Barabbas when he becomes a slave in a Roman governor's house?
(a) In his late sixties.
(b) Well into his fifties.
(c) In his mid thirties.
(d) In his early forties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barabbas do the night after the stoning?

2. What does the blind man accuse the hare-lipped girl of?

3. What is in the hare-lipped girl's tomb?

4. Who does Barabbas stay with after he buries the hare-lipped girl?

5. How does Barabbas act towards his former friends after he buries the hare-lipped girl?

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