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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the people of Jerusalem want to do?
(a) Fight to the death.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Flee to the countryside.
(d) Kill themselves.

2. What did Flavius Josephus tell the people of the town to explain his fleeing?
(a) That he was not a military leader.
(b) That Vespasian wanted him and not the town.
(c) That he needed to go see his mother.
(d) That he needed to get help.

3. What did Flavius Josephus do to terrify the crowd?
(a) He flogged the angriest of them.
(b) He had his archers kill 25 in the crowd.
(c) He decapitated a man.
(d) He freed his lions into the crowd.

4. What did Flavius Josephus decide to do?
(a) To fake his death.
(b) To stay in the town and fight.
(c) To surrender to the Romans.
(d) To try to flee the city.

5. Why was Archelaus banished from his kingdom?
(a) He allowed bandit to roam free.
(b) He put Jews to death.
(c) He was brutal against Jews and Samaritans.
(d) He stole from the Temple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was obligatory after Herod's name and Archelaus's rise to power, according to Section 3?

2. What happened to the first Roman soldier to climb the wall of Jerusalem?

3. What made Caesar disclaim responsibility for the Jews, in Section 8?

4. What did Titus order flattened, to have the entire army enter Jerusalem?

5. Who offered to cooperate with Vespasian against his own people?

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