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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, A Kingdom of Nuisances and Nobodies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bishop Butler say probability is the guide of?
(a) Politics.
(b) Life.
(c) Religion.
(d) Hate.

2. What did Jesus believe about individuals?
(a) They all had something good inside.
(b) They all have the ability to love.
(c) They all had the power to change.
(d) They are all people of God.

3. How does Matthew say Joseph responded to hearing that his wife was pregnant?
(a) He broke down in tears.
(b) He told her he wanted a divorce.
(c) He left for Egypt.
(d) He asked for God's help.

4. Why did Herod have a grudge against John the Baptist?
(a) He told him his family descended from the lower classes.
(b) He told him he was a boring, humorless man.
(c) He told him it was wrong to keep slaves.
(d) He told him it was wrong to have his brother's wife.

5. What does the Hebrew word Almah mean in English?
(a) An evil spirit.
(b) A man of God.
(c) Child born out of wedlock.
(d) A newly married virgin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John before he appeared publicly to Israel?

2. How do scholars know that Jesus was not middle-class?

3. What country did Jesus flee for?

4. Who ordered John the Baptist's death?

5. What does Res Gestae Divi Augusti translate as?

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