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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XVIII through XX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Marcellus's orders from Prince Gaius?
(a) To take charge of a prison in southern Palestine.
(b) To free the Jews in Palestine.
(c) To command the garrison at Minoa.
(d) To attack the troops at Gaza.

2. What is the Sanhedrin?
(a) A Jewish legislative body.
(b) The Greek army.
(c) A group of moneylenders.
(d) Jerusalem's security force.

3. Why does Bartholomew sit all day long watching the road?
(a) He sits and remembers things.
(b) To watch the people pass.
(c) In hopes that Jesus will visit him again.
(d) He is old and senile.

4. What is Demetrius's state of mind as he approaches the crucifixion site?
(a) He is happy to have made it there.
(b) He is anxious.
(c) He is nervous.
(d) He is very low in spirit.

5. Why does Marcellus avoid talking with the Eupolis family?
(a) He is afraid he will be attracted to Theodosia.
(b) He does not want them to witness one of his mysterious seizures.
(c) He does not particularly like them.
(d) He feels they are below him.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Justus, how do Jews express themselves since they neither carve nor draw?

2. What does Pontius Pilate do to anger the Jews so much that it causes a seven-month war?

3. Why is Marcellus reluctant to return to Benjamin to pick up the repaired robe himself the following day?

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

5. How does Marcellus react to seeing and hearing Miriam sing?

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