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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Joshua receives a message from __________ on how to make things better in the situation.
(a) Joseph
(b) Mary
(c) God
(d) Biff

2. Whose uncle is the Zealot who saves the children before they are able to escape by running away?
(a) Joshua's
(b) Biff's
(c) Maggie's
(d) No one's

3. ______________ sarcastically lets out a few statements about how great the work is that they are doing.
(a) Justus
(b) Peter
(c) Biff
(d) Joshua

4. The two idiot tells Biff to become a ____________ and to stop thinking too much about what's happening.
(a) Greek
(b) Christian
(c) Cynic
(d) Roman

5. What does Jakan's father do for a living, according to his own admission?
(a) Nothing
(b) Pharisee
(c) Weaver
(d) Tax collector

6. Who ends up killing the Roman's killer before the killer kills Maggie?
(a) Justus
(b) Biff
(c) No one
(d) Joshua

7. Raziel makes ___________ promise to tell any shepherds he might come across about the good news of Christ's coming.
(a) Biff
(b) Joshua
(c) Joseph
(d) Maggie

8. Biff's father talks with the ____________ who has hired him to build the house where the stonecutting takes place.
(a) Jew
(b) Roman guard
(c) Greek
(d) Christian

9. John the Baptist is baptizing one of _______'s younger brothers and is nearly drowning the boy in the process.
(a) Joshua
(b) Maggie
(c) Biff
(d) Peter

10. What does Maggie's father do for a living at the beginning of this book and its story?
(a) Stonecutter
(b) Blacksmith
(c) Carpenter
(d) Rabbi

11. John the Baptist turns out to be the cousin of ___________.
(a) Joshua
(b) Justus
(c) Maggie
(d) Biff

12. The town idiot, __________, turns out to be smarter than he looks, according to some of the characters.
(a) Peter
(b) Biff
(c) Joseph
(d) Bart

13. What reduces Mary's credibility when she talks about her son Joshua and how powerful he is?
(a) Her crazy eyes
(b) Joseph
(c) The fact she has other children
(d) Her fortune telling

14. Biff tries to explain to Raziel that soap operas are _____________, but the angel does not understand.
(a) Reality
(b) Pointless
(c) Fiction
(d) Stupid

15. Everyone in ___________ goes to Sepphoris to plead for the life of the accused.
(a) Israel
(b) Gommorah
(c) Nazareth
(d) Bethlehem

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shows the others that the snake in the town is not possessed by a demon by holding their hand up to it?

2. Who knocks down the man who tried to threaten the boys with punishment?

3. Joshua and Biff hire on a ship to shorten their trip to ______________, though they are charged for the trip and still have to work.

4. Who knifes the Roman to death, just as the Roman is about to come after the child pranksters?

5. __________ starts shouting that Joshua consorts with demons when he is knocked over by Joshua's animal.

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