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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. When a woman sees Justus and Marcellus approaching Jacob's well, what does she do?
2. When Marcellus rhetorically asks Miriam what constitutes freedom, what does she answer?
3. When Marcellus speaks of his irritation over mistreated animals, what subject does his traveling companion bring up in Chapter 12?
4. Why does Simon want Christians to sell their property and bring the proceeds to the Ecclesia?
5. What does Marcellus offer to lend Tiberius in Chapter 20?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Justus believe he has betrayed his people at the end of Chapter 17?
2. How does Justus explain to Marcellus Jesus's idea of people giving things away without worrying about providing for their own dependents?
3. When Marcellus asks Demetrius about his experiences with Christians in Jerusalem in Chapter 19, why does he seem to arguing with him and interrogating him?
4. What makes Miriam encourage Justus to tell Marcellus everything about Jesus?
5. What incident results in Demetrius having to run away and leave Marcellus?
6. How does Demetrius compare the ways in which the Roman emperors get armies to give up their lives to the ways in which Jesus commands loyalty?
7. After Marcellus tells his father of his experiences concerning Jesus, what does the senator advise him to do about it with Tiberius?
8. Why is it that Marcipor does not want to let Marcellus know about his turn to Christianity at this point?
9. When Marcellus arrives at Benyosef's shop in Jerusalem, why is it that he does not find Demetrius there?
10. When Justus tells Marcellus a story about a wealthy nobleman who followed Jesus around and wondered how he could get what Jesus has, what does the man discover he must do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
When Demetrius arrives to join Marcellus and Justus in their camp, they have dinner. Demetrius, knowing his place as a slave, stands instead of sitting with the men. Justus finds this appalling. What is Justus' reasoning for Demetrius having the right to join them at the table? Why is Demetrius happy enough with things as they are? What does Jonathan point out that gives Justus some food for thought?
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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