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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ana do in the Temple that causes chaos just before Passover?

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

3. Who does Ana task with doling out the money she wants to use to patronize Jesus's preaching?

4. What does Judas tell Jesus is one last plot concocted by Ana's father?

5. Who ultimately helps Ana find a document regarding Chaya?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Yaltha do to finally help Ana write again following the death of her baby?

4. Why does Ana have her own portrait painted in Part IV?

5. Why does Ana let the lambs out of their gate at the Temple in Jerusalem?

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

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

8. How does Ana feel when Judas brings news of her mother's death, and how does Ana's mother die?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the main purpose of Ana's writing in the beginning of the novel, and how does both Ana's writings and her goals regarding her writing change over the course of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How would you describe Jesus's and Judas's relationship, and why is Ana so alarmed to read Judas's letter to her when she is cloistered with the Therapeutae? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the tensions and conflicts that eventually arise in Ana's quite happy marriage with Jesus? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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