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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) Die on a cross.
(c) Have it rebuilt eventually.
(d) Put it up in three days.

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) Jesus may be hurt in the arguments.
(c) It interferes with his business.
(d) The Jews are not allowed to keep the sabbath.

3. Who is in charge of Minoa before Marcellus' arrival?
(a) Manius.
(b) Vitelius.
(c) Paulus.
(d) Sextus.

4. Who is madly in love with Demetrius in Chapter II?
(a) Lucia.
(b) Nesta.
(c) Paula.
(d) Tertia.

5. Why does Pilate dip his hands in a basin of water and fling the water off his fingers?
(a) It is a courtesy to have clean hands.
(b) To wash his hands of Jesus's case.
(c) To show the crowd he is against them.
(d) He had touched Jesus and wants to be clean.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the ship Marcellus and Demetrius take to Greece?

4. Where does Demetrius go after speaking with Zenos and his master, Polygos?

5. What does Marcellus do to Demetrius when the slave hesitates to give his master the robe to try on?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to one report, when one witness testifies that Jesus professes to be a king, what is Pilate's reaction?

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

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

4. Why is Marcellus's being sent to a post in Minoa considered to be a form of exile for him?

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

6. When Lucia tells her friend, Diana, that Demetrius gave her a ring before he left with Marcellus, how does Diana react?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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