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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 does the book Joel reads seem to say?

3. What does Leah tell her pet goat?

4. What stirs Leah out of the corner during the night?

5. Why can Daniel not get the parts he needs from Simon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect does Daniel's kindness have on Samson?

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

3. When the grandmother is dying, no one will try to enter the house. Why?

4. How does Daniel escape the Roman soldiers?

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

6. What happens when Malthace sees Daniel back at her door?

7. Why does Daniel tell his friends that he ended up as a slave to Amelek?

8. When Daniel gets restless on the mountain, where does he decide he wants to go?

9. What troubles Daniel about robbing the old man who pretends he is a begger?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the real character of Rosh as it is slowly revealed in the book.

Essay Topic 2

Write a short story in which Leah is the only character. The story will consist of her thoughts after she receives her first silver coin from the widow of Chorazin.

Essay Topic 3

Jesus is a secondary character in the novel. Write a paper telling what you believe the author is saying about religion in general.

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