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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, No Staff, No Sandals, and no Knapsack.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did people view mustard during the time of Jesus?
(a) Hot and tasty.
(b) Beautiful and plentiful.
(c) A life saver.
(d) Dangerous and invasive.

2. What does the author say was pure fiction about Luke's story?
(a) Jesus having a last supper.
(b) Mary and Jospeh's journey to Nazareth.
(c) Mary being a virgin.
(d) Jesus being born in a manger.

3. How do scholars know that Jesus was not middle-class?
(a) Carpenters could only be members of the working-class.
(b) Jesus was a king.
(c) Jesus was born into poverty.
(d) There was no middle-class in ancient societies.

4. What does the author say he is searching once again in Chapter Six?
(a) The light.
(b) The scriptures.
(c) Homer's poems.
(d) The darkness.

5. Complete the following title: In Chains to?
(a) Machaerus.
(b) Galilee.
(c) Bethlehem.
(d) Nazareth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease did the person suffer from that the author says Jesus healed?

2. Who ruled Judea from 37 to 4 B.C.E?

3. Complete the following sentence: "extended to others as both challenge and ..."

4. What sea does the author describe as cruel and beautiful?

5. What approach to life did John the Baptist see as the way to live a spiritual life?

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