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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Marcellus reluctant to return to Benjamin to pick up the repaired robe himself the following day?
(a) He thinks Benjamin is very old and in danger of dying soon.
(b) Because Benjamin is Jewish, and he should not associate with him.
(c) Benjamin asks many questions, and he does not wish to review the tragedy.
(d) He feels the repairs costs too much.

3. Who is awakened from his bed to hear the case about Jesus?
(a) Gallios.
(b) Pilate.
(c) Diophanos.
(d) Herod.

4. What does Pontius Pilate do to anger the Jews so much that it causes a seven-month war?
(a) Raises the taxes for the moneylenders.
(b) Insults the Sanhedrin.
(c) Takes a bath in the public fountain.
(d) Uses funds from the temple treasury to build an aqueduct.

5. Who does Lucia's father, Marcus Gallio, insult in the senate?
(a) Marcellus.
(b) Cornelius Capeto.
(c) Prince Gaius.
(d) Decimus.

6. On the Roman caravan to Jerusalem, why is no one else traveling on the day the soldiers make their way along the highway running up from Hebron?
(a) People are afraid to walk near the soldiers.
(b) There is a desert storm brewing.
(c) Everone else is already there.
(d) It is the sabbath and Jews cannot travel.

7. Who asks Demetrius to pick up a coat laying near the foot of the central cross in Chapter 6?
(a) Jesus's followers.
(b) Paulus.
(c) A weeping woman.
(d) Marcellus.

8. What condition is Paulus in when he speaks with Marcellus in Chapter 6?
(a) Drunk.
(b) Very sad.
(c) Happy.
(d) Sick.

9. Who has a sword fight while at Marcellus's first dinner in Minoa?
(a) Marcellus and Paulus.
(b) Sextus and Vitelius.
(c) Marcellus and Sextus.
(d) Sextus and Paulus.

10. What does Demetrius decide to do with Melas, only to change his mind?
(a) Get drunk.
(b) Hide the robe.
(c) Write letters home.
(d) Run away.

11. What gets Benjamin excited when Demetrius tells him about what happened to Jesus?
(a) He believes Yeshayah's prophecies may be coming true.
(b) Things happening in distant places excite the old man.
(c) He wishes to hear more about a crucifixion.
(d) He likes hearing about the Jewish merchants.

12. What does Ino do that meets with Dion's and Marcellus's disapproval in Chapter 8?
(a) She flirts with Demetrius.
(b) She tells Marcellus she loved his father.
(c) She speaks with Demetrius.
(d) She flirts with Marcellus.

13. What makes Demetrius feel less lonely in Chapter 6?
(a) Speaking with Melas.
(b) Knowing Marcellus respects him.
(c) Seeing Jesus on the cross.
(d) The robe.

14. Why must Marcus Gallio make a visit to the emperor in Capri?
(a) To explain why Marcellus is not in rome.
(b) To ask for Diana's hand for Marcellus.
(c) To takes Marcellus' place until he returns.
(d) To give his thoughts on the home being built for Diana and Marcellus.

15. For what occasion does Paulus tell Marcellus that a company of men must be sent into Jerusalem?
(a) Yom Kippur.
(b) Rosh Hashanah
(c) The sabbath.
(d) Passover.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Benjamin think the temple will feel if the messiah actually made an appearance on earth?

2. What is the Sanhedrin?

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

4. What does Demetrius observe Theodoris doing when he walks on the grounds of the Eupolis family in Chapter 9?

5. What happens to Sextus to put him out of commission?

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