The saints could never have imagined that the second question on the exam was an essay question; they were only given one multiple-choice question, like it was some kind of charity!
They feared that if they were given too many, they might guess one or two correctly by sheer luck.
This unprecedented design of exam questions was truly without rival, both before and since. His Excellency Merlin, truly deserving of the title God of Law, created questions that were nothing short of divine.
The second question was from the Alchemical Church, which generally tested knowledge of Alchemical Array composition, the principles of Alchemical Circuits, and alchemy theory. They looked at the second question,
[The God of Alchemy smelts all things. Please describe the steps to extract black silk from crude oil using alchemical methods.]
Divine.