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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does modern day Biff use to tip room service, even though this is an innocent mistake?
(a) Dime
(b) Penny
(c) $100 bill
(d) Quarter

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

3. ___________ tells the children about the fact that Rome only has two rules everyone must follow.
(a) Judas
(b) Gaius
(c) Jakan
(d) Peter

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Balthesar appears as a huge __________, which turns out to be a costume and a joke he plays on the boys.

2. What is the name Biff gives to the rebellious Jews who try to cause trouble for the Romans?

3. What is not finished, so the statue can not be put into place as of yet?

4. The angel Raziel shows up to announce the coming of Christ _________ years too late, as Raziel was playing cards.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the task that is assigned to Raziel by Heaven at the start of this book?

2. Who is being accused of knifing the Roman legionnaire, even though he was not the guilty person?

3. In Jerusalem, Biff and Joshua come upon John the Baptist. What is John doing when they first see him?

4. What does Biff claim to have invented, which was then named by Bart, though Joshua does not understand this?

5. What is ironic about the man who delivers pizza to Raziel and Biff when they are staying in a hotel room?

6. What does Bart, the town idiot, advise that Biff do when he sees Biff crying by the well?

7. What is the honest mistake that Biff makes when he is tipping the room service?

8. What does Biff find about the writing in the Bible when he finally gets a chance to read it?

9. What are the two rules of the Romans, as Gaius reveals to the children when they are at the funeral?

10. What reduces Mary's credibility in her talking about the virgin birth of Joshua, according to Biff's storytelling?

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