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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is John sent to Nazareth?
(a) To get Jesus to save Abbot Joachim.
(b) To tell everyone that Abbot Joachim is dead.
(c) To obtain Jesus's blessing.
(d) To get Simeon.

2. Who is helping Barabbas, in Chapter 1?
(a) Jesus and his disciples.
(b) The Zealots.
(c) The Israelites.
(d) Zebedee and his workers.

3. What is Abbot Joachim's last speech about?
(a) Freedom, slavery, and liberation.
(b) The imminent arrival of the Messiah.
(c) Reasons why the Israelites should rise up against the Romans.
(d) God's loving and forgiving nature.

4. How does Simeon respond when Jesus tells him about his dreams?
(a) He scoffs at Jesus.
(b) He looks at Jesus, shocked.
(c) He agrees with Jesus.
(d) He leaves, without saying anything else to Jesus.

5. Where does Jesus think the animals have come from?
(a) His bowels.
(b) The river.
(c) His imagination.
(d) Hell.

6. How does Jesus's mother look at him when he struggles and falls under the weight of the cross he built?
(a) With anger.
(b) With pity.
(c) With disappointment.
(d) With love.

7. What is Abbot Joachim's response when he meets Jesus?
(a) He is unconscious, and Jesus is unable to wake him.
(b) He screams "Adonai!" and faints.
(c) He looks hopeful, but is convinced by Jesus's conversation that he is not the Messiah.
(d) He looks blissful and says, "You've come."

8. Why does Jesus think Magdalene prostitutes herself?
(a) He wasn't able to marry and support her.
(b) When they were three years old they played together naked.
(c) She has no other skills with which to support herself.
(d) She wants to hurt Jesus for not marrying her.

9. In Chapter 6, Jesus leaves home to do what?
(a) Face Barabbas in Golgotha.
(b) Make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
(c) Enter a desert monastery.
(d) Visit Mary Magdalene.

10. What does Jesus say to the mob that wants to stone Mary Magdalene?
(a) They cannot stone her without first conducting a fair trial.
(b) Only one who is sinless may throw the first stone.
(c) If they want to stone her, they will have to stone him as well.
(d) Working on the Sabbath is not a sin worthy of a stoning.

11. What is Jesus's defense to save himself from God hunting him?
(a) Helping his disciples to see him as human.
(b) Doing what he can to keep the Romans out of Nazareth.
(c) Committing every conceivable sin to make God detest him.
(d) Hiding himself in the monastery.

12. What does Nathaniel want Jesus to do for him in Magdala?
(a) Help him to smuggle Mary Magdalene out of Magdala.
(b) Convince Mary Magdalene to leave her life of sin.
(c) Preach to his group of friends and relatives.
(d) Bless his nephew's wedding.

13. When does the clawing sensation occur for Jesus?
(a) Whenever he has committed a sin.
(b) Whenever something bad happens to one of his disciples.
(c) Whenever he feels pleasure.
(d) Whenever he is in close proximity to the Devil.

14. What is Jesus's response when Judas reveals his intent to kill him?
(a) Jesus threatens Judas in return.
(b) Jesus reminds Judas that murderers do not go to Heaven.
(c) Jesus calls for help.
(d) Jesus invites him to strike.

15. Who warns Jesus that Judas intends to kill him in Magdala?
(a) Peter.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Simeon.
(d) John.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simeon tell Jesus's mother, in regard to her son?

2. What does Andrew lecture Zebedee and the other men about?

3. Who visits Jesus in Chapter 1?

4. Who shelters Mary Magdalene in Capernaum?

5. Why does Philip want to murder Jesus?

(see the answer keys)

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