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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 Judas tell Jesus is one last plot concocted by Ana's father?
(a) To marry Ana to a rich landowner after all.
(b) To make sure Ana produces an heir to his wealth.
(c) To make Herod Antipas King of the Jews.
(d) To make Matthias King of the Jews.

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

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) Make a gravestone for the baby.
(d) Go to her burial place and collect her bones, putting them into a limestone ossuary.

4. Who is Yaltha's daughter?
(a) Tabitha.
(b) Martha.
(c) Harad.
(d) Chaya.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What food is traditional for Ana's people to eat at Passover?

2. Who is Phasaelis's attendant that feeds information from the palace to Judas?

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

4. What news does Salome tell Ana that she is pleased about in Part III?

5. Why does Yaltha tell Ana she must go to Alexandria?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would a discovery of what Haran really did with Chaya be so damaging to Haran?

2. What news does Judas bring to Jesus and Ana just as they prepare to begin traveling for Jesus's preaching in Part IV?

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

4. What does Yaltha tell Ana when her baby is stillborn?

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

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

7. What are Haran's conditions for letting Yaltha and Ana stay with him?

8. What significant dream does Ana have a few months after the death of her baby?

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

10. What is Ana's first impression of Alexandria?

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