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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Jesus leave home in Chapter 6?
(a) He wants to get away from God's persistent commands.
(b) God gently tells him to do so.
(c) He thinks it will displease God.
(d) He wants to make things easier for his mother and father.

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

5. Who is the first person to be executed in the novel?
(a) Simeon.
(b) The Zealot.
(c) John the Baptist.
(d) Judas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nathaniel want Jesus to do for him in Magdala?

2. How does Simeon respond when Jesus tells him about his dreams?

3. How does Jesus's mother look at him when he struggles and falls under the weight of the cross he built?

4. Why does the old woman feed Jesus?

5. What does Mary Magdalene dare Jesus to admit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Curse?

2. Why does Judas Iscariot visit Jesus at the beginning of the novel?

3. How does Jesus meet Zebedee?

4. What does Simeon advise Jesus to do, in Chapter 10, and how does Jesus respond?

5. What do Philip and Judas talk about after Judas leaves Capernaum?

6. Why does Judas decide not to kill Jesus at the monastery?

7. What does Jesus do to defend Mary Magdalene in Capernaum?

8. What does Jesus tells Simeon at the end of Chapter 10?

9. What occurs between Judas, Zebedee, and Philip when they meet in Capernaum during the storm?

10. At the beginning of the novel, how does Jesus feel about God's demands that he preach the Kingdom of Heaven?

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