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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. Following tradition, many Jews congregate at _______ for Passover, including the boys, their families, and Maggie.
(a) Jerusalem
(b) Nazareth
(c) Constantinople
(d) Bethlehem

2. What does Jakan's father do for a living, according to his own admission?
(a) Weaver
(b) Pharisee
(c) Nothing
(d) Tax collector

3. Raziel makes ___________ promise to tell any shepherds he might come across about the good news of Christ's coming.
(a) Joshua
(b) Maggie
(c) Biff
(d) Joseph

4. The sale of ___________ helps to finance the room that Raziel and Biff share in the modern times.
(a) Parchments
(b) Shrouds
(c) Dinars
(d) Blood

5. Who knifes the Roman to death, just as the Roman is about to come after the child pranksters?
(a) Justus
(b) Peter
(c) Jeremiah
(d) Joseph

Short Answer Questions

1. While everyone else fears God and Rom, Joshua fears ______________.

2. Along the walk on the Silk Road, ________ purposefully bumps into people in order to heal them.

3. What does Maggie's father do for a living at the beginning of this book and its story?

4. What does Joshua's father do for a living, so it is generally expected he will do the same thing?

5. Why does the town idiot ask Biff what is wrong when he is waiting at the well?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Joshua's attempts to save a thief from death fail after the thief is resurrected once?

2. What is the prank Biff invites Maggie to come along to witness with he and Joshua?

3. What do Biff and Joshua do in order to shorten their trip to Antioch?

4. Why does modern day Biff believe Raziel will not want him to read the Bible that is in the hotel room?

5. What does Biff want Joshua to do once he hears about what will happen to Maggie?

6. What did Joshua know how to do as a young child growing up in Nazareth?

7. What does Biff claim to have invented, which was then named by Bart, though Joshua does not understand this?

8. What happens when the boys begin to deface the statue in the way they had intended?

9. What does Ancient Biff try to persuade Joshua to do as they are beginning their apprenticeships?

10. Why are other people in the town afraid that Mary might attract too much attention from the Philistines?

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