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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. Along the walk on the Silk Road, ________ purposefully bumps into people in order to heal them.
(a) John
(b) Joshua
(c) Biff
(d) Peter

2. Biff jokes about becoming a professional _______________ and bids Maggie farewell.
(a) Martyr
(b) Wrestler
(c) Mourner
(d) Writer

3. Balthesar appears as a huge __________, which turns out to be a costume and a joke he plays on the boys.
(a) Lamb
(b) Chicken
(c) Roman
(d) Demon

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Biff compare the Old Testament of the Bible to, noting it is very similar?

2. ___________ develops a sense of satire around the stories of the Bible, while ___________ wants to play true to the stories.

3. _____________ can not experience sex firsthand, so he asks for details to be explained to him.

4. Who has sex with a prostitute in order to try to explain sex to another character in the story?

5. What are the boys going to do to the statue of Apollo when they are out on their prank?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Joshua's attempts to save a thief from death fail after the thief is resurrected once?

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

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

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

5. What does Biff want Joshua to do once he hears about what will happen to Maggie?

6. What did Joshua know how to do as a young child growing up in Nazareth?

7. What addiction does Raziel seem to have that Biff wants to use against him in order to read the Bible?

8. What does Ancient Biff try to persuade Joshua to do as they are beginning their apprenticeships?

9. Why does the angel Raziel show up to Biff ten years too late, according to Biff's recollection?

10. What does Joshua purchase when he is on the Silk Road and then becomes addicted to it?

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