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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 the person who wants the statue moved threaten the boys with when they are unable to move it yet?
(a) Sword
(b) Spike
(c) Gun
(d) Whip

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

3. What are the color of the robes and the wings of Raziel when he appears to the captain of the ship?
(a) Black
(b) Green
(c) White
(d) Blue

4. Who demands that the captain treat the boys fairly, frightening the captain out of his wits?
(a) Michael
(b) Raziel
(c) Peter
(d) Joshua

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the form of humor Biff tells Joshua he has created and Bart has named?

2. Maggie declares she would like to be a ______________, though this is not something women do.

3. What does Biff want Joshua to do when they are trying to decide what they will do as adults?

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

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

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

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

4. What is Joshua's reaction to the statue of Venus they find at the gate of Sepphoris?

5. What do Biff and Joshua do in order to shorten their trip to Antioch?

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

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

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

9. What happened when others have tried to take down the statue of Venus?

10. What do the Pharisees want in return for the release of Joseph and the other accused people in the death of the Roman?

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