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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Demetrius observe Theodoris doing when he walks on the grounds of the Eupolis family in Chapter 9?
(a) She is reading poetry on a bench.
(b) She is climbing a tree.
(c) She is planning to meet someone near the temple.
(d) She is shooting arrows at a target.

2. Why is Zenos's master, Popygos, upset about the constant quarrels between the Romans and the Jews?
(a) He does not like the animals in the temple.
(b) The Jews are not allowed to keep the sabbath.
(c) Jesus may be hurt in the arguments.
(d) It interferes with his business.

3. What does Melas tell Demetrius will happen to Jesus when Demetrius asks?
(a) He will be hung from a gallows.
(b) He will suffer for three days.
(c) Big black birds will attack him.
(d) He will be crucified.

4. Which author does Demetrius instigate a conversation about with Marcellus in Chapter 8?
(a) Homer.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Lucretius.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Herod's job?

2. What is Paulus's belief about the gods' origins?

3. What is Demetrius's emotion when he realizes his master is winning the fight?

4. What does Demetrius confess to Theodosia in the garden in Chapter 8?

5. What does Ino do that meets with Dion's and Marcellus's disapproval in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Marcus Gallio's attitude toward the acquisition of slaves?

2. Why do the Sanhedrin want Pontius Pilate to stay on as procurator of Jerusalem?

3. Why does Benjamin question Demetrius so intently about Jesus in Chapter 9?

4. What conclusion does Marcellus arrive at when he reflects seriously on the nature of the Robe in Chapter 9?

5. How does Marcellus come to own Jesus's robe?

6. 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?

7. When Theodosia asks Demetrius if the robe is haunted, how does he answer?

8. Why does Pontius Pilate wash his hands in a basin in view of the civilian audience of Jewish merchants?

9. 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?

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

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