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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 one of Pilate's legionnaires tell Paulus he had heard that Jesus intends to do if the temple is torn down?
(a) Build a new market there.
(b) Have it rebuilt eventually.
(c) Die on a cross.
(d) Put it up in three days.

2. What does Marcellus ask of the innkeeper, Dion, at Eupolis that meets with Dion's disapproval?
(a) To pay for his rooms in advance.
(b) To eat his meals alone in his room.
(c) To have his slave feast with the family.
(d) To share his quarters with Demetrius, his slave.

3. What is Demetrius's attitude towards religion?
(a) He is pious and prays daily.
(b) Religion is something to avoid at all costs
(c) Religion is for the elderly only.
(d) It is better that man does not believe in the gods.

4. Where does the slave Sevenus escape to?
(a) Damascus.
(b) Gaza.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Jerusalem.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Marcellus's orders from Prince Gaius?

2. What does Demetrius advise Marcellus to do once he arrives at Minoa?

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

4. Marcellus has a big black sheepdog whose name is:

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Demetrius tell Marcellus about his belief in the gods?

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

3. What incident compels Demetrius to change his mind about running away with Melas?

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

5. Why is it that Marcus's father does not believe Marcus should apologize to Gaius?

6. Why does Demetrius feel that showing Marcellus the robe might bring him out of his depression?

7. Why is Zeno's master, Popygos, upset that everyone in Jerusalem is mixed up with the case of the man from Nazareth?

8. When Marcellus tells Demetrius to give him the robe during the banquet at the Insula, why does Demetrius hesitate?

9. Why is Lucia so upset when Marcellus tells her that he laughed at Prince Gaius and his son at the previous night's banquet?

10. After Marcellus has touched the robe in Chapter 8 and feels a great relief, he speaks with Demetrius about it. Where does their conversation about the robe's powers lead to?

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