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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. Who knifes the Roman to death, just as the Roman is about to come after the child pranksters?
(a) Jeremiah
(b) Peter
(c) Justus
(d) Joseph

2. Biff notes that the Bible contains more ____________ English language than the Hebrew he remembers.
(a) Boring
(b) Ingenious
(c) Casual
(d) Complicated

3. The person from #46's answer wants a statue of the well-endowed ______________ to be set in place.
(a) Mercury
(b) Apollo
(c) Zeus
(d) David

4. Who is chipping away at the state when the Roman legionnaire discovers them in their prank?
(a) Joshua
(b) Maggie
(c) Biff
(d) No one

5. What is the Hebrew name for Biff, the main character in this book?
(a) Levi
(b) Joshua
(c) David
(d) Peter

Short Answer Questions

1. How old are the boys when they are ready to start their own apprenticeships?

2. Who is thought to be a little insane as she talks so much about Joshua's virgin birth?

3. What is the name of the man who delivers the food to the room of Raziel and Biff?

4. When Joshua's face shows up on a piece of bread, who does Mary try to convince others in the town the face really is?

5. What does Joshua do as everyone is standing around the grave of the deceased Roman?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does modern day Biff believe Raziel will not want him to read the Bible that is in the hotel room?

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

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

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

7. What does Biff do in order to help Joshua begin to understand the idea of sex and what happens?

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

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

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

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