View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What political conflict is going on at the time of this story?
(a) Conflict between the Jews and the Romans.
(b) Conflict between Rosh and the Romans.
(c) Conflict between youth and their elders.
(d) Conflict between the rich and the poor.

2. What does Simon suggest after the grandmother dies?
(a) That Daniel get a job as tax collector.
(b) That Daniel find someone to take care of Leah.
(c) That Daniel take over his blacksmith shop in Ketzah.
(d) That Daniel come with him to follow the carpenter.

3. What do most people think that someone is doing on the mountain?
(a) Manning a look out post.
(b) Setting up a new government.
(c) Hiding from the law.
(d) Raising an army to fight the Romans.

4. Why does Joel insist on staying near Daniel when the pack train is coming?
(a) He hopes to get some of the gold.
(b) He wants to see the large black man.
(c) He thinks Rosh is nearby and wants to meet him.
(d) He thinks Daniel is lying to him.

5. Where are Joel and Thacia keeping Daniel?
(a) In a small passageway out in the store room.
(b) In Joel's closet.
(c) In a shed in the garden.
(d) In the small room at the top of the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story did Simon tell Daniel about Jesus?

2. Why do Joel and his sister Malthace come to the mountain?

3. What does the book Joel reads seem to say?

4. What was Daniel's father trying to do when he was caught and executed?

5. Where is Daniel from?

Short Essay Questions

1. As the story begins, describe Daniel bar Jamin, where he is, and what he is doing.

2. As the figures approach, Daniel understands that they are brother and sister. How?

3. What is Malthace's attitude when Daniel shows up at her door?

4. Why does Simon come to take Daniel to the synagogue the next morning?

5. What is Joel's real reason for climbing the mountain?

6. How does Daniel begin to feel trapped?

7. What effect does Daniel's kindness have on Samson?

8. How does Daniel escape the Roman soldiers?

9. Why does Simon not join forces with Rosh?

10. What trouble does Daniel get into at the well in Capernaum?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 797 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample