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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ana write to in Part III to try to save this person's life?
(a) Phasaelis.
(b) Matthias.
(c) Martha.
(d) Tabitha.

2. What does Ana do in the Temple that causes chaos just before Passover?
(a) Cooks dinner for everyone.
(b) Preaches from the pulpit.
(c) Lets all the animals out of the pen.
(d) Steals the money.

3. What does the name Ana gives her baby mean?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Life.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Lily.

4. What does the person Jesus and Ana travel to follow in Part III wear, which is peculiar?
(a) A camel-hair sackcloth.
(b) A toga.
(c) A simple uniform of pants and a shirt.
(d) A long dress-like white robe.

5. What does Haran accuse Apion of doing, which he is correct about?
(a) Taking a bribe from Ana.
(b) Cheating on his own wife.
(c) Stealing from Haran.
(d) Fathering a child out of wedlock.

6. What does Jesus bring for Ana after she runs out of writing materials?
(a) Ivory.
(b) Fine paper.
(c) Sand.
(d) Stone potsherds.

7. What lie does Ana tell Apion when she meets him at her old house in Sepphoris?
(a) She is ill.
(b) She is married to Haran.
(c) She is Herod Antipas's wife.
(d) She is pregnant.

8. Who ultimately helps Ana find a document regarding Chaya?
(a) Thaddeus.
(b) Haran.
(c) Lavi.
(d) Pamphile.

9. What does Ana say to Jesus when they separate in Part IV?
(a) She hopes he does not get arrested.
(b) She hopes his preaching ushers in the Kingdom of God.
(c) She hopes the severing will bind them together instead of cut them apart.
(d) She hopes Judas stays faithful.

10. Where is Lavi, according to Judas, in Part III?
(a) Still in Sepphoris.
(b) In Alexandria.
(c) In Tiberius with Ana's father.
(d) At Herod Antipas's palace.

11. Who visits Ana at the village well one day in Part III, surprising her?
(a) Martha.
(b) Lazarus.
(c) Herod Antipas.
(d) Judas.

12. How does Ana know Jesus has come home when she returns from Sepphoris before she even sees him?
(a) She smells the fatted lamb cooking.
(b) She has had a vision of Jesus returning.
(c) She hears Jesus playing the trumpet.
(d) She hears Jesus praying.

13. Who does Lavi want to marry?
(a) Diodora.
(b) Yaltha.
(c) Ana.
(d) Pamphile.

14. What does Jesus ignore in order to comfort Ana after their baby's death?
(a) Ana's protests.
(b) The dream he had.
(c) The possibility of a curse.
(d) The purity laws.

15. What does Yaltha bring for Ana to write on in Part III?
(a) Ivory.
(b) Paper.
(c) Pieces of a broken clay pot.
(d) Stone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judas tell Ana about their own family that surprises, but does not immediately sadden, her?

2. What is James worried about on the eve of Ana's and Jesus's departure from Nazareth in Part IV?

3. What queen did Yaltha tell Ana stories about in connection to Alexandria?

4. What does Ana do with Jesus as a pretense to telling him about her pregnancy?

5. What does Judas tell Jesus is all Jesus has until the Messiah comes?

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