1. Luke uses parallel episodes to tell the story of John and of Jesus:
    1.   in relating the annunciation, birth, and naming
    2.   when he recounts the visitation
    3.   when the mothers-to-be each sing canticles of praise to God about their pregnancies
    4.   when he compares their births to that of Moses
  2. Choose a characteristic that Luke’s narrative does NOT use to express the continuity of Jesus with Jewish people and traditions.
    1.   situating the birth of Jesus among many pious Jewish people.
    2.   circumstances that echo incidents in Israel’s scriptures.
    3.   telling of Jesus’ circumcision.
    4.   an allusion to many well-known persons in Israel’s scripture.
    5.   fulfillment passages in his narrative
  3. Luke’s narrative manifests a concern for the poor and lowly by:
    1.   portraying shepherds as the first to learn the news of Jesus’ birth
    2.   depicting Jesus being born among common people and not royalty
    3.   including songs that may have originated among the anawim.
    4.   by showing Mary and Joseph offering birds as their sacrifice in the Temple
    5.   all of the above
  4. Mary is considered the model disciple because:
    1.   she has an angel appear to her
    2.   she is humble when she replies
    3.   she hears God’s word and keeps it.
    4.   she goes to visit her cousin even though she is pregnant
    5.   Mary does not question Gabriel
  5. Luke’s narrative suggests to its readers that Jesus will be:
    1.   the ultimate Jew perfectly fulfilling the Torah’s commands
    2.   the epitome of all Israel’s history and the culmination of God’s past interactions with Israel
    3.   the lamb of God
    4.   a bringer of peace between Israel and the Gentile nations
    5.   the Logos, the Word made flesh