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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who takes over carrying the cross that Jesus built, when Jesus becomes tired?
(a) Judas.
(b) Peter.
(c) John.
(d) Thomas.

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

4. What is the subject of the parable Jesus tells the poor on the hill in Capernaum?
(a) A man who is wealthy on Earth, but goes to Hell when he dies.
(b) A poor man who gives his last crust of bread to someone else, and then becomes rich.
(c) A man who is cold and burns down his house trying to warm himself.
(d) A seed, falling into different kinds of soil.

5. Why does Jacob resist when Barabbas drags Mary Magdalene out?
(a) He and Mary Magdalene were childhood friends.
(b) He is in love with Mary Magdalene.
(c) He knows how angry Jesus will be.
(d) He wants to observe Moses's law.

6. Why does the old woman feed Jesus?
(a) She is embittered that the monastery took her son.
(b) She knows that there is something special about him.
(c) She is afraid of what he might do if she doesn't feed him.
(d) She knows that he is the Messiah.

7. How does Jesus feel about these dreams?
(a) He is resigned to them.
(b) He is tormented by them.
(c) He is happy about them.
(d) He is puzzled by them.

8. Why is Philip afraid to take Judas's side in his argument with Zebedee?
(a) He doesn't trust Judas.
(b) He thinks that Judas is cursed.
(c) He is afraid to associate himself with Judas and Jesus.
(d) Zebedee is his employer.

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

10. Jesus realizes that the central figure in all of his dreams is __________.
(a) The Devil.
(b) God.
(c) Judas.
(d) Mary Magdalene.

11. Why do the poor look to Jesus in Capernaum?
(a) They are afraid of the Romans.
(b) They are cold.
(c) They are afraid of Zebedee.
(d) They are hungry.

12. What does Jesus believe about the Messiah?
(a) He believes that he is the Messiah.
(b) He believes that people will not be ready when the Messiah comes.
(c) He does not believe that the Messiah is coming.
(d) He believes that he will die alone, crowned with thorns, atop a mountain.

13. What does Jesus's quiet and elusive nature make Jacob suspect about him?
(a) He is a Roman spy.
(b) He is too timid to be the Messiah.
(c) He is ashamed to be in Magdala.
(d) He has something to hide.

14. What does Simeon wonder about Jesus when they are at the monastery together?
(a) What signals Jesus receives from God.
(b) Why Jesus doesn't marry Mary Magdalene.
(c) When Jesus began thinking that he might be the Messiah.
(d) What hidden pain devours Jesus.

15. How does Mary Magdalene feel about God?
(a) She hates God because he has kept her from being happy with Jesus.
(b) She is an atheist.
(c) She believes in God, but she does not practice a religion.
(d) She believes God exists, but does not believe in the same God Jesus does.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is John sent to Nazareth?

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

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

4. What does Mary want Simeon to explain to her when he visits?

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

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