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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. How did the shepherds feel when they were told about Jesus's birth?

2. Who was Jesus teaching in the temple?

3. What were the shepherds told Jesus would teach people?

4. Who was Dickens writing this book for?

5. Why did Joseph and Mary travel home from the temple with a large crowd?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Joseph know when to leave and return to Nazareth?

2. How did Jesus heal a servant of a Centurion?

3. Where was Jesus born, and why?

4. What did Dickens compare Jerusalem to, and why?

5. Why did Dickens say that Jesus was our Savior?

6. Why did Jesus choose some poor men to be his Apostles?

7. How did God show his approval of Jesus's baptism?

8. What caused Jesus to do his first miracle?

9. Why did Mary not notice that Jesus had been left at the temple when she was heading home from there?

10. How did the wise men know about the birth of Jesus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Pilate have Jesus scourged, and what did this reveal about his feelings for Jesus?

Essay Topic 2

How did Dickens introduce this book, and what did this reveal about him and his relationship with his children?

Essay Topic 3

What did Jesus teach Thomas about faith, and why was Thomas chosen to teach this lesson to?

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