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