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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Romans have restricted __________ after the attack on the legionnaire the previous night.
(a) Access
(b) Food
(c) Stone
(d) Water

2. Who is thrown overboard when he makes a sarcastic comment to the captain of the boat?
(a) Biff
(b) Joshua
(c) Moses
(d) Peter

3. The angel Raziel shows up to announce the coming of Christ _________ years too late, as Raziel was playing cards.
(a) 10
(b) 20
(c) 13
(d) 5

4. Who is the other character who argues with Joshua about who the real Messiah is?
(a) John
(b) Biff
(c) Moses
(d) Joseph

5. Joseph asks Biff to help teach Joshua how to be ________ so that he can live a more normal life.
(a) Human
(b) Perfect
(c) A jerk
(d) Quiet

6. What does Biff want Joshua to do when they are trying to decide what they will do as adults?
(a) Run away
(b) Become a con man
(c) Walk on water
(d) Stonecutting

7. Who knifes the Roman to death, just as the Roman is about to come after the child pranksters?
(a) Jeremiah
(b) Justus
(c) Peter
(d) Joseph

8. Rabbi ___________ tells Joshua he can be anything he wants to be, just as long as he does not talk about it.
(a) Justus
(b) Yahweh
(c) Yakov
(d) Hillel

9. Biff notes that the Bible contains more ____________ English language than the Hebrew he remembers.
(a) Casual
(b) Complicated
(c) Boring
(d) Ingenious

10. What is the Hebrew name for Biff, the main character in this book?
(a) David
(b) Peter
(c) Joshua
(d) Levi

11. Joshua calls the statue at the gate of Sepphoris ___________ and wonders why the Jews have not torn it down.
(a) Sinful
(b) Beautiful
(c) Provocative
(d) Ugly

12. What does Joshua's father do for a living, so it is generally expected he will do the same thing?
(a) Carpenter
(b) Rabbi
(c) Blacksmith
(d) Stonecutter

13. Who is chipping away at the state when the Roman legionnaire discovers them in their prank?
(a) No one
(b) Joshua
(c) Biff
(d) Maggie

14. What statue is at the gate of Sepphoris when Biff and Joshua arrive to work with Biff's dad?
(a) Hera
(b) Artemis
(c) Venus
(d) Athena

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the kind of food that Raziel and Biff both enjoy ordering via room service?

2. Joshua heals John of a _______ he has developed from being in the water so much.

3. What does Mary do to Joshua to further hide his identity when his faces shows up on a bread during Passover?

4. Why does the town idiot ask Biff what is wrong when he is waiting at the well?

5. Who does Joshua blind in a fit of rage after raising a thief from the dead once, only to have him be killed again?

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