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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Barabbas meet the hare-lipped girl?
(a) He captured her on a raid.
(b) Her father was a thief.
(c) She cared for him when his leg was wounded.
(d) At the fat woman's house.

2. What do Barabbas and Sahak speak of for the first few days above ground?
(a) The smell of the air.
(b) Their miraculous escape from the mine.
(c) The harsh overseer.
(d) The hard work of plowing.

3. What might Barabbas have been doing in Gerizim?
(a) Sacrificing a lamb on the Passover.
(b) Praying at the temple.
(c) Languishing in jail.
(d) Making clay pots.

4. What happened to Barabbas's mother after she gave birth to him?
(a) She died.
(b) She sailed to Egypt.
(c) She left him with Eliahu.
(d) She was taken captive by the Romans.

5. What does Sahak show the one-eyed slave?
(a) The inscription on the back of his medallion.
(b) The scar on his leg.
(c) His copy of the Scriptures.
(d) An escape route.

6. Why does the one-eyed slave only have one eye?
(a) He was born half-blind.
(b) He was blinded by Eliahu.
(c) One of his eyes was gouged out as punishment for theft.
(d) One of his eyes was gouged out in a mill accident.

7. What was inscribed on the front of Sahak's slave medallion?
(a) The mark of the Roman state.
(b) The name of the mine owner.
(c) His own name, written in Hebrew.
(d) Symbols that represent Jesus' name.

8. What does Barabbas do once Sahak is dead?
(a) He weeps in private.
(b) He stabs the soldiers.
(c) He falls to his knees.
(d) He cries out to God.

9. How is Barabbas connected to Sahak?
(a) By first century handcuffs.
(b) They are not connected.
(c) By shackles.
(d) By a long rope.

10. Why does Sahak believe he had been the recipient of a miracle?
(a) Because his lame leg had been healed.
(b) Because he had been spared from crucifixion.
(c) Because his father had been blind.
(d) Because he had been moved from the furnaces to the mine.

11. What does Barabbas allow the governor to do to his slave medallion?
(a) Write his own name above Jesus' name.
(b) Give him a new medallion.
(c) Scratch though Jesus' name.
(d) Melt it down.

12. What might Barabbas have been doing in Lebanon?
(a) Making clay pots.
(b) Being cruel to the Christians.
(c) Languishing in jail.
(d) Praying at the temple.

13. What secret about Eliahu does no one know?
(a) Eliahu betrayed Jesus.
(b) Eliahu is a Pharisee.
(c) Eliahu is Barabbas' father.
(d) Eliahu is the hare-lipped girl's brother.

14. Where do Barabbas and Sahak work after the spring plowing is complete?
(a) In the potter's shop.
(b) In the governor's house.
(c) In the copper mine.
(d) At the water wheels.

15. Where does Barabbas carry the hare-lipped girl's body?
(a) Past Jericho and into Judah.
(b) To the Red Sea.
(c) Through the Desert of Judah to the land of the Moabites.
(d) To the fat woman's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Barabbas and Sahak feel about their above ground work?

2. What does the one-eyed slave wear?

3. What happens to Sahak when he refuses to renounce his faith before the governor?

4. What covers the grave of the hare-lipped girl?

5. What do the soldiers do once Sahak is dead?

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