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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. Where are Joel and Thacia keeping Daniel?

2. What is Daniel like as he enters Capernaum?

3. What does Simon bring for Daniel?

4. Who tries to follow Daniel as he leaves the camp to return to the village?

5. What does Daniel recite to Leah and his grandmother just before she dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Daniel begin to feel trapped?

2. Discuss the symbolism of Daniel hammering flaws out of the hot iron.

3. What in Rosh's behavior gives some indication that he is not the hero Daniel thinks he is?

4. How is Malthace different after she sees Daniel has been wounded?

5. What happens when Daniel is listening to the carpenter's son for the second time?

6. Why does Simon come to take Daniel to the synagogue the next morning?

7. What is the result of the argument Daniel has with Joel's father?

8. Describe Daniel's journey back to the mountain from Joel's house.

9. As the figures approach, Daniel understands that they are brother and sister. How?

10. Why did Nathan's friends beat up Nathan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about Samson considering that he was grateful to be relieved of servitude and then made himself Daniel's personal slave. Discuss possible motives.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the transformation of Simon the Zealot in THE BRONZE BOW.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the meaning of those who live by the sword, perish by the sword.

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