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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 animal follows Joshua everywhere he goes when he is a child?
(a) A camel
(b) A fish
(c) A lamb
(d) A black cobra

2. Biff convinces Raziel that ________ can not buy magazines for the guests in order to get Raziel to go away for a while.
(a) Peter
(b) Mildred
(c) Jesus
(d) God

3. Biff wants Joshua to ___________ when he hears about the forced marriage of Maggie.
(a) Kill Jakan
(b) Kidnap Maggie
(c) Kill him
(d) Marry Maggie

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

5. While other children play normal games, Biff and Joshua used to pretend to be _____________.
(a) Apostles
(b) Rabbis
(c) Devils
(d) Actors

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jakan's father do for a living, according to his own admission?

3. Who shows the others that the snake in the town is not possessed by a demon by holding their hand up to it?

4. What does Biff discover in the hotel room, though he knows Raziel will not want him to find it?

5. As Joshua and Maggie and Biff are walking to a ________, they talk about what the boys will do as men.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the city of Sepphoris now restricted in terms of who can come in and out of the gates?

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

4. What happens when the boys begin to deface the statue in the way they had intended?

5. What did Biff and Joshua like to do though other children in the town liked to play the usual games?

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

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

8. Why are other people in the town afraid that Mary might attract too much attention from the Philistines?

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

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

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