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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. Why does Tiberius rescind his offer to make Marcellus commander of the villa guard after hearing Marcus' story in Chapter 10?

2. Who is awakened from his bed to hear the case about Jesus?

3. What does Demetrius bring to Benjamin when he visits him in Chapter 9?

4. Who is madly in love with Demetrius in Chapter II?

5. What does Theodosia make of Marcellus no longer being in a state of great exaltation after touching the robe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Marcellus writes a letter to Diana in Chapter 5, what does he decide to convey to her?

3. Why does the emperor become especially interested when Marcus asks him if he has ever heard of the messiah?

4. What makes Tiberius suddenly change his mind about giving Marcellus a job in Capri?

5. In Chapter 1, Marcus asks Lucia why she is being so unusually considerate of the new twin slaves, Helen and Nesta. What is Lucia's response?

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

7. Why is Lucia so upset when Marcellus tells her that he laughed at Prince Gaius and his son at the previous night's banquet?

8. What is Marcellus's condition when Demetrius returns home with him?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Paulus is amazed with Marcellus's involvement with the followers of Jesus. They converse about the stories of Jesus performing miracles and whether or not Marcellus believes in any of it. Is Paulus's respect and admiration for Marcellus changing? What, if anything, in Paulus's words to Marcellus indicate a change in his estimation of the man? Can Paulus possibly be converted to seeing things from Marcellus's point of view?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Hariph visits Marcellus in his tent and tells him stories of Jesus healing people, turning water into wine, and feeding a crowd of five thousand with small basket of bread and two fish. Of these stories, why is it that Marcellus believes the story of feeding the people the most? How does this story connect the most for him with the sayings of Jesus?

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