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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the new meaning of the paschal meal?
(a) It is now known as Good Friday instead.
(b) It is to commemorate the last gathering of Jesus and his disciples.
(c) It is to celebrate the coming of the Messiah.
(d) The bread and wine are Jesus's body and blood.

2. What does Simeon tell Jesus about Isaiah's martyrdom?
(a) Isaiah helped to ready the way for Jesus as the Messiah.
(b) He showed that pity and love alone are not enough to save mankind.
(c) It showed that the body is a tent, a temporary place to stay while on one's way to Heaven, the homeland.
(d) He made too many mistakes; he may have been the Messiah, instead of a martyr, had he lived.

3. What does the snake, with the head of a woman, try to convince Jesus to do?
(a) Leave the desert, and return to Jerusalem.
(b) Save Magdalene and live a respectable and productive life.
(c) Venture to Nazareth to see his mother.
(d) Lead the Israelites' revolt against the Romans.

4. When talking to Pilate, Jesus compares Rome to ____________.
(a) A giant bird of prey.
(b) A vast ocean.
(c) A giant clay statue.
(d) A circus.

5. How does Jesus feel when he reads what Matthew has written?
(a) He finds it full of lies, but he accepts that it may be God's higher truth.
(b) He knows it is false, but he likes it better than the truth.
(c) He feels that it is closely in accordance with the truth.
(d) He is angry at Matthew and blames him for writing an inaccurate account.

6. What does Barabbas accuse Jesus of while he and his disciples are in Jerusalem?
(a) Being a Roman emissary.
(b) Stealing from the governor.
(c) Being a heretic.
(d) Inciting riots.

7. Which of these is NOT a punishment sent down to Jerusalem, by God?
(a) Madness.
(b) Locusts.
(c) Fire.
(d) Leprosy.

8. What does Jesus fear as Spring approaches?
(a) Losing the faith of his followers.
(b) Being sentenced to death.
(c) Last-minute cowardice.
(d) Being unable to carry out his mission.

9. Who washes Jesus's feet with perfume?
(a) Mary.
(b) Judas.
(c) Mary Magdalene.
(d) Simeon.

10. How does Judas respond when Jesus tells him that he is the lamb to be led to slaughter?
(a) He demands that the Romans be slaughtered, and the Messiah seated on David's throne.
(b) He is unable to believe Jesus, until Simeon agrees with him.
(c) He worries for Jesus's sanity, and wonders if people calling him Messiah has gone to his head.
(d) He disagrees with Jesus, and encourages him to do all he can to act in opposition to the prophecy.

11. Andrew compares John the Baptist to whom?
(a) Peter.
(b) Moses.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Elijah.

12. Where does Jesus revive after the incident in Jerusalem's temple?
(a) Gethsemane.
(b) Galilee.
(c) Nazareth.
(d) Capernaum.

13. Why does Pilate initially refuse to be provoked into crucifying Jesus?
(a) He doesn't believe in crucifixion.
(b) He is afraid of retaliation from the Jewish people.
(c) He doesn't want Jesus to become a martyr.
(d) He is afraid that he will be reprimanded by the Roman government.

14. What is the subject of Jesus's earliest dream?
(a) Being suckled by a lioness.
(b) His birth.
(c) God and Satan clashing over him.
(d) Seeing his mother's face surrounded by light.

15. When Simeon asks Jesus who he really is, what is Jesus's response?
(a) He says he is the Messiah.
(b) He says he is Daniel's Son of Man.
(c) He says he is the Son of God.
(d) He says he is God himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who joins Jesus's group of disciples in Chapter 21?

2. Who invites Jesus in and feeds him when he arrives in Bethany?

3. Who does Jesus heal in Cana?

4. Why does Jesus send Peter and John to Jerusalem?

5. What does Matthew write about on their first night in Cana?

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