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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. What does Judas call Mary Magdalene?

2. What do Jesus' disciples enter and pass out?

3. How does Judas try to weasel out of what he has planned?

4. As Jesus is held up by his followers, what do Caiaphas and Annas do?

5. How would all of the disciples have looked?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the other disciples do? What happens to Jesus?

2. What has Judas decided to do? Why?

3. What do the sick do to Jesus?

4. Where does Judas go after leaving Jesus and Mary?

5. What are the disciples doing?

6. How does the scene open?

7. What does Herod ask of Jesus? What is Jesus' response? What is Herod's reaction to Jesus' response?

8. How does the scene end?

9. How does the movie of this rock opera open?

10. What takes place between Jesus and God in the Garden of Gethsemane?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Act 1, Scene 13, the council members and Judas are all in black.

Part 1) Why are they all in black? What does it symbolize? What does this reveal about Judas?

Part 2) What takes place in this scene? Could Judas' actions have been prevented? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

In Act 2, Scene 2, Jesus' humanity is now clear.

Part 1) How is it now clear? Why is his humanity revealed?

Part 2) Does Jesus speak to God in a way you would expect? Why or why not?

Part 3) What changes take place in Jesus during this scene? Why do they take place?

Essay Topic 3

In Act 1, Scene 14, as Mary Magdalene is washing Jesus' feet, he is dressed all in white.

Part 1) Why does she wash his feet? What does this symbolize?

Part 2) What is symbolic about his white clothing?

Part 3) How has Jesus' clothing changed throughout the musical? Why? How is it related to the plot and changes in his character?

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