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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ana's first inkling that something might not go well with her pregnancy?
(a) She can not feel the baby move.
(b) She feels very thirsty.
(c) Her labor starts too early.
(d) She has a vision.

2. Who helps the person Jesus and Ana find in the road on the way to Bethany?
(a) An Israelite.
(b) A Samaritan.
(c) A Manichean.
(d) A Galilean.

3. How does Lavi find the right key to free Ana and Yaltha from Haran's house?
(a) He can feel the right fit.
(b) He can read the labels.
(c) He has been watching where Haran keeps the keys.
(d) He asks one of the other servants to help him.

4. Whose portrait does Ana have painted in Alexandria?
(a) Hers.
(b) Jesus's.
(c) Lavi's.
(d) Yaltha's.

5. What does Ana buy as an offering to bring to a rabbi in Nazreth?
(a) A lamb.
(b) Two turtledoves.
(c) A swan.
(d) A cow.

6. What was Tabitha's plan after running away from slavery?
(a) To become a priestess in Alexandria.
(b) To become a traveling fortune teller.
(c) To become a musician in Sepphoris.
(d) To become a beggar in Jerusalem.

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

8. What is the name of the great lighthouse in Alexandria?
(a) Ethos.
(b) Pharos.
(c) Yaros.
(d) Pathos.

9. Who does Ana task with doling out the money she wants to use to patronize Jesus's preaching?
(a) Lavi.
(b) Mary.
(c) Judas.
(d) Salome.

10. What does Ana wrap her baby in for burial?
(a) The dark blue dress she was married in.
(b) A cotton skirt.
(c) A silk scarf.
(d) A white shroud.

11. What does Ana fear when she and Yaltha are supposed to part before Yaltha leaves for Alexandria?
(a) She will never see Yaltha again.
(b) Yaltha will die during the journey.
(c) Matthias will try to have Yaltha arrested.
(d) Yaltha will not be safe with Lavi.

12. What do Jesus and Ana do on the one-year anniversary of their baby's death?
(a) Make a gravestone for the baby.
(b) Have another baby.
(c) To to the Temple to make an offering.
(d) Go to her burial place and collect her bones, putting them into a limestone ossuary.

13. Who does Jesus tell Ana also believes Jesus has been chosen by God?
(a) Mark the Believer.
(b) John the Immerser.
(c) Matthew the Carpenter.
(d) Luke the Great.

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

15. What dream does Ana have after the death of her child that also involves a birth?
(a) She dreams Tabitha has a baby.
(b) She dreams she births herself.
(c) She dreams Yaltha has a baby.
(d) She dreams she has twins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name that Herod Antipas is known by?

2. Who comes to visit Ana in Part III following Jesus's absence that she is very happy to see?

3. Who is Yaltha's daughter?

4. What is Ana's first indication that she is pregnant?

5. Why does Ana always ask Pamphile if there has been a letter for her?

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