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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Herod Antipas's guard urge the people in the street to do to Ana?
(a) Drown her.
(b) Crucify her.
(c) Stone her.
(d) Burn her.

2. What does Ana feel passionate about doing above all else?
(a) Writing.
(b) Singing.
(c) Drawing.
(d) Sculpting.

3. What is Jesus doing when Ana first sees him?
(a) Fixing a roof.
(b) Preaching.
(c) Helping a young girl wind yarn for her stall.
(d) Herding sheep.

4. What does Phasaelis use to write to Ana in Part II that Ana covets?
(a) Fine papyrus.
(b) Metal sheets.
(c) A tablet of clay.
(d) A tablet of thin ivory.

5. When does Ana's testament begin?
(a) When she is 30.
(b) When she is 20.
(c) When she is 14.
(d) When she is 8.

6. What does Ana's father do for a living?
(a) He is a priest.
(b) He is a rabbi.
(c) He is a money lender.
(d) He is head scribe to Herod Antipas.

7. How does Ana become free of her first betrothal?
(a) Ana dies.
(b) Nathaniel backs out of the arrangement.
(c) Ana runs away.
(d) Nathaniel dies.

8. Where do Ana's parents take her in order to meet her betrothed?
(a) The papyrus shop.
(b) The Temple.
(c) The Hill of Jesuit.
(d) The market.

9. Who was the leader of the Therapeutae when Yaltha lived with them?
(a) Skein.
(b) Skepsis.
(c) Lavi.
(d) Lucien.

10. What rumors does Nathaniel's daughter start about Ana?
(a) That she is a scribe.
(b) That she is a witch.
(c) That she is a concubine.
(d) That she is a harlot.

11. What does Tabitha do very well?
(a) Draw.
(b) Write.
(c) Swim.
(d) Sing.

12. Where does Ana grow up?
(a) Sepphoris.
(b) Nazareth.
(c) Galilea.
(d) Alexandria.

13. What does Ana's aunt give her in Part I that Ana cherises?
(a) A journal.
(b) An incantation bowl.
(c) A rosary.
(d) A cross.

14. What do Tabitha's family do to her to punish her?
(a) Damage her eyes.
(b) Lash her.
(c) Cut out her tongue.
(d) Confine her to their dungeon.

15. What does Phasaelis tell Ana she would miss more than she would miss her husband?
(a) The ocean view from her room.
(b) The mosaics in the palace.
(c) The palace pets.
(d) The palace food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary, Jesus's mother, tells Ana that it is always a marvel if one's pain does not settle into which of the following?

2. Where is Ana's betrothal ceremony?

3. What does Yaltha urge Ana to do after drugging Shipra and coming to her in the night secretly?

4. Who saves Ana from the crowd in Part II?

5. Who is Tabitha betrothed to?

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