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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Titus order built to bombard Jerusalem's defenders?

2. What did the people of Jerusalem think of Josephus, after learning he was in Rome?

3. Why were the siege weapons built by Titus difficult to capture?

4. Who were the leaders of Gamala?

5. Where did the Romans promise not to fight?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who held the Upper City and the Great Wall?

2. Why did people swallow gold coins, according to Section 8?

3. What was John committed to, according to Section 7?

4. What happened before the warring parties could use the war engines on each other?

5. Why was John in a strategically awkward position?

6. Whose release did the Jewish people beg for?

7. What did Romans do to those who tried to escape Jerusalem?

8. What did the bandit leader John trick Titus into keeping?

9. What happened to overweight residents?

10. What caused sadness and then anger in Jerusalem, according to Section 6?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define the meaning of hyperbole and examine what Josephus meant by the claim that "no other city has ever endured such horrors."

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the role of succession in the early Roman government.

Essay Topic 3

Compare the groups of Pharisees, Saducees, and Essenes and how the factions emerged under the Hasmoneans.

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