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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Biff throw during the bloody ceremony in order to distract those who are involved?
(a) Flowers
(b) Candy
(c) Arrows
(d) Bombs

2. ____________ invites Joshua and Biff to his home in Capernaum after the wedding party winds down.
(a) Joseph
(b) Peter
(c) Roger
(d) Andrew

3. Everything looks __________ to the cured blind beggars, which disappoints them after they are healed by Joshua.
(a) Brown
(b) Green
(c) Black
(d) Bright

4. Biff's tutor tells him, "Today's lesson is, if someone puts poison in your _______, don't drink it."
(a) Water
(b) Mind
(c) Heart
(d) Tea

5. Whose Buddhist monastery are Biff and Joshua trying to reach in this section of the book?
(a) Melchior's
(b) Balthesar's
(c) Joseph's
(d) Gaspar's

6. Justus tells Joshua and the others that Jakan has _______________ Maggie and also wants Joshua dead.
(a) Not given up on
(b) Begun to search for
(c) Divorced
(d) Put a death threat out on

7. What is John doing to Joshua when the sky opens up and declares that Joshua is God's son?
(a) Baptizing him
(b) Feeding him
(c) Arguing with him
(d) Hitting him

8. Who gets cold on the journey, as he has not mastered the art of creating his own heat?
(a) Thomas
(b) Joshua
(c) Ahmad
(d) Biff

9. What does Joshua get hit with repeatedly during his first lesson with Gaspar?
(a) Book
(b) Whip
(c) Bamboo stick
(d) Piece of grass

10. Where is the wedding that Maggie quickly invites Biff and Joshua to before her husband gets home?
(a) Nazareth
(b) Cana
(c) Sepphoris
(d) Jerusalem

11. What is Joshua given to help him with his injury after hitting his head?
(a) A piece of linen
(b) Bread
(c) Wine
(d) Myrrh

12. Biff learns that _____________ has been arrested for inciting people to riot.
(a) Judas
(b) Bartholomew
(c) John
(d) Joshua

13. From Balthesar's tutors, Biff and Joshua will learn all they can from the __________ masters.
(a) Japanese
(b) Chinese
(c) Russian
(d) Indian

14. What is Biff's first task at the Buddhist monastery, the one that does not go well, prompting Joshua to step in to heal Biff?
(a) Carrying water
(b) Standing on his head
(c) Shaving a yak
(d) Meditating

15. The death sentence on Joshua has been lifted due to the wealthy merchant, Joseph of ____________.
(a) Nazareth
(b) Bethlehem
(c) Galilee
(d) Arimithea

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose gospel does Biff find to be unbelievable and lonely at the end, prompting a nightmare?

2. ___________ tells Joy about the wonderful things he has learned from the Magi.

3. Balthesar's fortress is built into _____________, which puzzles Biff when he sees it.

4. Gaspar receives the boys at the monastery and gives them __________ for names, orders a monk to feed them, and tells them their lessons will begin in the morning.

5. The parents are angry with Biff and Joshua as the death of their children might have meant being born into ____________.

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