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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 happens to Sextus to put him out of commission?

2. Who is beautiful, in her mid-forties, a cultured, gracious hostess, and probably the laziest woman in the whole Roman Empire?

3. What social barrier does Marcus Gallio decide to cross when speaking with Demetrius in Chapter 7?

4. What does Demetrius think of Augustus's writing that "how sweet and glorious to die for one's country!"?

5. Why must Marcus Gallio make a visit to the emperor in Capri?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Marcus Gallio's attitude toward the acquisition of slaves?

2. Why does Pontius Pilate wash his hands in a basin in view of the civilian audience of Jewish merchants?

3. Why do the Sanhedrin want Pontius Pilate to stay on as procurator of Jerusalem?

4. Why is it that Marcus's father does not believe Marcus should apologize to Gaius?

5. What is Demetrius's theory of why the Jews want the Romans to leave Jerusalem?

6. What does Marcellus at first suspect of his slave, Demetrius, when Marcellus and his father are speaking in private and then open the door to the atrium?

7. When Lucia tells her friend, Diana, that Demetrius gave her a ring before he left with Marcellus, how does Diana react?

8. Why is Marcellus's being sent to a post in Minoa considered to be a form of exile for him?

9. What conclusion does Marcellus arrive at when he reflects seriously on the nature of the Robe in Chapter 9?

10. When Marcellus tells Demetrius to give him the robe during the banquet at the Insula, why does Demetrius hesitate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What choices do Marcellus and Diana make that affect many others? In what ways?

Essay Topic 2

When Benjamin, the weaver, questions both Demetrius and Marcellus about the last days of Jesus, what is so important to him about it? What bewilders Marcellus the most the man's reactions to his answers? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Marcellus's feelings about the robe from when he first sees it until the end of Chapter 8, when it miraculously seems to cure him of his depression. What has changed?

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