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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mary doing when Simeon visits?
(a) Tending to her animals.
(b) Making soap.
(c) Spinning wool.
(d) Cooking dinner.

2. What is the rabbi's usual cry to God?
(a) "What would you have me do?"
(b) "Sanctuary!"
(c) "My master!"
(d) "How long?"

3. What kind of invisible animal does Jesus feel sinking its claws into his skull?
(a) A vulture.
(b) An owl.
(c) A dove.
(d) A falcon.

4. What does Jesus's visitor try to persuade him to do in Chapter 1?
(a) To not provide a cross for that day's execution.
(b) To leave his mother's house for Jerusalem.
(c) To go to the desert monastery.
(d) To propose to Mary Magdalene.

5. What is Barabbas planning on doing in Chapter 1?
(a) Arresting Mary Magdalene.
(b) Rounding up Jesus's disciples.
(c) Arresting Jesus.
(d) Stopping an execution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jesus's mother recall as he passes her, carrying the cross that he built?

2. Who takes over carrying the cross that Jesus built, when Jesus becomes tired?

3. After watching Jesus carry the cross he built, to whom does Simeon compare Jesus?

4. Who is the first person to be executed in the novel?

5. What did the clawing sensation stop Jesus from doing when he was twenty years old?

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