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

2. What does Ana write her potentially life-saving message on in Part III?
(a) A clay shard.
(b) A piece of fine papyrus.
(c) A fine sheet of hammered ivory.
(d) A stone shard.

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

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

5. What story does Diodora concoct to try to trick Haran?
(a) She has a lost bracelet to return to the house.
(b) She has come begging for food.
(c) She thinks Haran is her uncle.
(d) She has a letter for Ana.

Short Answer Questions

1. What dream does Ana have after the death of her child that also involves a birth?

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

3. Who mostly helps deliver Ana's baby?

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

5. What does Ana buy as an offering to bring to a rabbi in Nazreth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who helps Ana by tipping her off about Haran's movements in Part IV, and why does this person do this?

2. Why does Jesus not want to go to the Temple in Jerusalem for Passover?

3. How does Ana feel when she becomes pregnant in Part III?

4. What is Yaltha's true motivation for coming back to Alexandria in Part IV?

5. What kind of work does Ana undertake for Haran and how does she feel about it?

6. Where do Ana and Yaltha eventually find Yaltha's daughter, and how does she react to them?

7. Why does James hesitate to summon Jesus back from his work after the death of Ana's baby?

8. What do Ana and Yaltha do to try to find Yaltha's long-lost daughter?

9. Who do Jesus and Ana find in the road on the way to Jerusalem in Part III, and what is the state of this person?

10. Why does Judas say Herod Antipas is looking to dispose of his wife Phasaelis?

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