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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. What does Barabbas do the night after the stoning?
(a) He cries at the red-bearded man's house.
(b) He murders the blind man before leaving town.
(c) He gets drunk and lays with the fat woman.
(d) He retrieves the hare-lipped girl's body from the pit.

2. Who does Barabbas stay with after he buries the hare-lipped girl?
(a) The resurrected man.
(b) The fat woman.
(c) The red-bearded man.
(d) A band of thieves and outlaws he led in the past.

3. How does Sahak die?
(a) He is drawn and quartered.
(b) He is tortured and then crucified.
(c) He is pushed off a cliff.
(d) He starves to death beside the mill wheel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Barabbas kill at the stoning pit?

2. What does Barabbas do once Sahak is dead?

3. What might Barabbas have been doing in Gerizim?

4. Where does the blind man sleep?

5. Where do Barabbas and Sahak work after the spring plowing is complete?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Barabbas think about as he carries the hare-lipped girl's body?

2. After his initial whipping, what does Barabbas do while Sahak prays?

3. How does Barabbas suffer for the man who died in his place?

4. What does Barabbas do with the hare-lipped girl's body?

5. Describe the one-eyed man.

6. How do Sahak and Barabbas end up standing trial in front of the governor?

7. What explanation does Barabbas give the governor for the inscription on the back of his medallion?

8. What explanation does Sahak give the governor for the inscription on the back of his medallion?

9. What about Barabbas amazes Sahak?

10. Describe the hare-lipped girl's burial.

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