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

2. What does Jesus's mother recall as he passes her, carrying the cross that he built?
(a) The moment of his birth.
(b) A message that was delivered to her by God.
(c) Happy memories of his childhood.
(d) The visitors that brought him gifts when he was young.

3. Who orders Barabbas to leave?
(a) Judas.
(b) Salome.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Zebedee.

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

5. After watching Jesus carry the cross he built, to whom does Simeon compare Jesus?
(a) Jonah.
(b) Judas.
(c) Elijah.
(d) Moses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is helping Barabbas, in Chapter 1?

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

3. What does the crowd do to taunt Jesus in Chapter 1?

4. What is Jesus's defense to save himself from God hunting him?

5. Who is the rich man who wants Jesus to perform sorcery to rid him of nightmares?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the snakes, according to Jeroboam, Simeon, and Jesus?

2. What does Jesus wonder about his dreams?

3. What is the Curse?

4. What are Jesus's beliefs regarding the Messiah at the beginning of the novel?

5. What do Jesus and Nathaniel talk about at the wedding of Nathaniel's nephew?

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

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

8. What does the Zealot do immediately before and during his crucifixion?

9. How is Jesus described in Chapter 1?

10. Why does the mob chase Mary Magdalene to Capernaum?

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