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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jesus unable to vanquish?
(a) Pride.
(b) Lust.
(c) Envy.
(d) Fear.

2. What does Jesus tell Simeon when he arrives home and finds Simeon there?
(a) Jesus tells Simeon that he will resist God until he dies.
(b) Jesus tells Simeon that he is not the Messiah.
(c) Jesus tells Simeon to get out of his house.
(d) Jesus tells Simeon that he defies God's will for his mother's sake.

3. What does Simeon reveal to reassure the people?
(a) The Israelites will be successful in their revolt against the Romans.
(b) Jerusalem will be restored to its former glory.
(c) God has assured him that he will live to see the Messiah.
(d) Jesus is the Messiah.

4. Who visits Jesus in Chapter 1?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Zebedee.
(c) Peter.
(d) Judas.

5. What does Jesus wonder about his dreams?
(a) Whether it is God or the Devil who visits him.
(b) Why he has them.
(c) Whether he is really the Chosen One.
(d) What he has to do to make them stop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simeon say to the men who move to block Jesus's path, as he carries the cross he built?

2. Why is Philip afraid to take Judas's side in his argument with Zebedee?

3. Simeon advises Jesus to do what, because it often drives out demons?

4. What does Jesus's visitor try to persuade him to do in Chapter 1?

5. Why is Jesus's mother embarrassed when the cross is hoisted for the first execution in the novel?

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