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  • 1. In Poul Anderson's Technic History, who makes a show of revering Saint Dismas?
A) Claude Fitzwilliam
B) Nicholas van Rijn
C) Nathan Drake
D) Dismas Hardy
  • 2. Who is the main protagonist in a series of legal and crime thriller novels by John Lescroart?
A) Nathan Drake
B) Dismas Hardy
C) Claude Fitzwilliam
D) Nicholas van Rijn
  • 3. Which band released the 1995 song titled 'Thief'?
A) The Hoodlum Saint
B) Dizmas
C) Racionais MC's
D) Third Day
  • 4. Who is the narrator in Sydney Carter's song 'Friday Morning'?
A) Nathan Drake
B) Nicholas van Rijn
C) The thief
D) Claude Fitzwilliam
  • 5. In 'Vida Loka, Pt. 2', how do Racionais MC's refer to Dismas?
A) A thief of the century
B) A forgotten criminal
C) A first thug life of all time
D) A saint of the streets
  • 6. What was the title of the final album by the rapper Ka prior to his death?
A) The Hoodlum Saint
B) Friday Morning
C) The Thief Next to Jesus
D) Thug Life
  • 7. Which 1946 film prominently mentions Dismas?
A) Clerks III
B) The Hoodlum Saint
C) Fitzwilly
D) Once We Were Slaves
  • 8. In the film Fitzwilly, what is the name of the charity shop operated by the staff?
A) San Dimas Thrift
B) The Thief's Charity
C) Dismas Goods
D) St. Dismas Thrift Shoppe
  • 9. Which media franchise features San Dimas, California?
A) Bill & Ted
B) Clerks
C) Uncharted
D) Darkest Dungeon
  • 10. Who portrays the thief in the film Once We Were Slaves?
A) Dick Van Dyke
B) Edward James Olmos
C) William Powell
D) Stelio Savante
  • 11. In Clerks III, what phrase is misheard by others as 'butt thieves'?
A) bad thieves
B) both thieves
C) but thieves
D) best thieves
  • 12. In the movie American Me, what item is given to the character by his mother?
A) A photograph of the cathedral
B) A book about the thief
C) A medal of St. Dimas
D) A ring of the thief
  • 13. Which video game character is inspired by Saint Dismas?
A) Nathan Drake
B) Dismas Hardy
C) The Highwayman
D) Claude Fitzwilliam
  • 14. In Uncharted 4, where does Nathan Drake travel to visit Saint Dismas' cathedral?
A) California
B) Philadelphia
C) Scotland
D) Brazil
  • 15. What is the primary alternate meaning for the Greek term 'léstés' according to the USCCB?
A) A guerrilla warrior fighting for nationalistic aims
B) A professional pickpocket
C) A Roman tax collector
D) A Roman centurion
  • 16. On what date does the Catholic Church commemorate the Good Thief?
A) 1 November
B) 25 December
C) 25 March
D) Good Friday
  • 17. Who built the Church of the Good Thief in Kingston, Ontario?
A) Local monks
B) Government engineers
C) The town mayor
D) Convicts
  • 18. When does the Eastern Orthodox Church remember the Good Thief?
A) Good Friday
B) Easter Sunday
C) Ascension Day
D) 25 March
  • 19. In the troparion tou deipnou, to whom is the thief compared as a contrast?
A) John
B) Judas
C) Pilate
D) Peter
  • 20. According to Robert Taft, when was the 'Remember me, O Lord in Thy Kingdom' hymn inserted into the Holy Thursday liturgy?
A) Middle Ages
B) Late 6th century
C) 1st century
D) 10th century
  • 21. Which text is often associated with medieval depictions of the thief accompanying Jesus, despite the text itself not mentioning him?
A) The Gospel of John
B) 1 Peter 3:19–20
C) The Epistle to the Romans
D) The Book of Revelation
  • 22. Who wrote 'The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel'?
A) Heidi Hornik
B) Mitchell Merback
C) Robert Taft
D) Christiane Klapisch-Zuber
  • 23. Which Gospel mentions the penitent thief?
A) Matthew
B) John
C) Luke
D) Mark
  • 24. What is the name of the penitent thief according to the Gospel of Luke?
A) Barabbas
B) Gestas
C) Dismas
D) The text does not name him
  • 25. What does the majority view suggest about the phrase 'today' in Luke 23:43?
A) It modifies the verb 'be'
B) It is an adjective describing Jesus
C) It modifies the word 'paradise'
D) It modifies the verb 'say'
  • 26. Which ancient translation offers significant testimony to the minority view of the phrase 'today'?
A) King James Version
B) Septuagint
C) Vulgate
D) Curetonian Gospels
  • 27. How does Thomas Aquinas describe the paradise mentioned to the thief?
A) A corporeal garden
B) A place of temporary punishment
C) An earthly city
D) A spiritual paradise
  • 28. What did Augustine of Hippo wonder about the penitent thief?
A) If he was a close friend of Jesus
B) If he might have been baptized
C) If he spoke Aramaic
D) If he had stolen from the temple
  • 29. According to tradition, on which side of Jesus was the good thief crucified?
A) Directly behind him
B) His right
C) In front of him
D) His left
  • 30. What does the bottom slanted bar on a Russian Orthodox cross represent?
A) The bridge to heaven
B) The titulus
C) The footrest
D) The crown of thorns
  • 31. What does the top bar of a three-bar Russian Orthodox cross represent?
A) The hands of Jesus
B) The gates of paradise
C) The titulus
D) The feet of Jesus
  • 32. How many men were crucified alongside Jesus?
A) Two
B) One
C) Four
D) Three
  • 33. Which Gospel interprets the crucifixion of the two men as a fulfillment of Isaiah 53:12?
A) John
B) Mark
C) Matthew
D) Luke
  • 34. In the Gospel of Luke, what does the penitent thief say to the other thief regarding their condemnation?
A) They were innocent
B) They were framed
C) They were victims of bad luck
D) They were condemned justly
  • 35. How does the Gospel of John describe the two men crucified with Jesus?
A) Two others
B) The two thieves
C) Two sinners
D) Two criminals
  • 36. Who omitted the Markan/Matthean tradition regarding the thieves in the Diatessaron?
A) Origen
B) Ambrose
C) Augustine
D) Tatian
  • 37. What figure of speech did Epiphanius, Ambrose, and Augustine use to explain the discrepancy?
A) Irony
B) Hyperbole
C) Metaphor
D) Syllepsis
  • 38. Which early commentator followed Tatian in omitting the Markan/Matthean tradition?
A) Augustine of Hippo
B) Ambrose of Milan
C) Frederic Farrar
D) Ephrem the Syrian
  • 39. What does the Greek word behind the name 'Dismas' mean?
A) Dying
B) Kingdom
C) Forgiven
D) Cross
  • 40. What is the name of the other thief traditionally associated with the crucifixion?
A) Titus
B) Dismas
C) Dumachus
D) Gestas
  • 41. In the Arabic Infancy Gospel, what is the name of the penitent thief?
A) Dismas
B) Rakh
C) Zoatham
D) Titus
  • 42. What name is given to the penitent thief in Russian Orthodox tradition?
A) Dismas
B) Demas
C) Zoathan
D) Rakh
  • 43. In the Coptic Orthodox tradition, what is the thief named?
A) Demas
B) Dismas
C) Rakh
D) Titus
  • 44. Which document names the penitent thief as Zoatham or Zoathan?
A) Codex Colbertinus
B) Arabic Infancy Gospel
C) Acta Pilati
D) Gospel of Luke
  • 45. Which event is the Feast of the Annunciation tied to for the commemoration of the penitent thief?
A) Transfiguration
B) Incarnation
C) Resurrection
D) Baptism
  • 46. What is the title of the 1868 French work about the thief?
A) Histoire du Bon Larron
B) Acta Pilati
C) Life of Dismas
D) Codex Colbertinus
  • 47. In Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, who discusses the accounts of the penitent and impenitent thieves?
A) Anne Catherine Emmerich and the robbers
B) The Four Evangelists
C) Dismas and the Holy Family
D) Vladimir and Estragon
  • 48. What is the primary focus of the Dismas Ministry?
A) Providing travel aid to pilgrims
B) The study of Samuel Beckett's plays
C) Historical research on the crucifixion
D) Catholic prison outreach
  • 49. In what year was the Dismas Ministry founded?
A) 2000
B) 2010
C) 1990
D) 1950
  • 50. What affliction did the child of the robbers' family have?
A) Leprosy
B) Deafness
C) A broken leg
D) Blindness
  • 51. What did the robber say to the Holy Family upon their departure?
A) Forgive us for our sins
B) Go in peace and safety
C) Remember us wherever you go
D) May we meet again in Jerusalem
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