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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. How does Demetrius discover that Paulus is the new legate of Capernaum?
(a) He sees Paulus on the road.
(b) His cellmate tells him so.
(c) He reads about it.
(d) Marcellus has sent him word.

2. When a woman sees Justus and Marcellus approaching Jacob's well, what does she do?
(a) Screams out Justus's name and runs to him.
(b) Runs away in fear.
(c) Goes home and returns with another woman.
(d) Drops her water buckets and runs.

3. What does Demetrius decide he must do after the incident with Quintus in Chapter XI?
(a) Hide in Benjamin's home.
(b) Marry Theodosia.
(c) Run away and hide.
(d) Give himself up.

4. How is the woman, Lydia, trying to get to Jesus in the crowd, cured of her illness?
(a) She begs Jesus to lay his hand on her.
(b) She merely looks in Jesus's eyes.
(c) She touches Jesus's robe.
(d) Jesus prays for her to heal.

5. What does Marcellus learn of the fate of Simon the fisherman when he finds the Christian meeting place has been locked up and the leaders arrested?
(a) He is being sent to Rome.
(b) He has been murdered on the spot.
(c) He has been released.
(d) He is to be beheaded.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon his return to the Gallio household in Rome, who does Demetrius discover has become a Christian?

2. What does Jesus do when he and his followers are on a boat and a huge storm comes to threaten their lives?

3. Why does Simon want Christians to sell their property and bring the proceeds to the Ecclesia?

4. Why are many merchants coming to the daily suppers at the Ecclesia?

5. Why does Stephanos recognize Marcellus the moment he first sees him?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Justus tells Marcellus a story about a wealthy nobleman who followed Jesus around and wondered how he could get what Jesus has, what does the man discover he must do?

2. Why does Jonathan give up his donkey to Thomas?

3. When Marcellus asks Demetrius about his experiences with Christians in Jerusalem in Chapter 19, why does he seem to arguing with him and interrogating him?

4. Why is Celia, Quintus' wife, beside herself with anxiety and jealousy concerning Prince Gaius?

5. When Justus tells Marcellus the story of Lydia touching Jesus's robe and being cured, why does Marcellus believe every word of it?

6. What does Marcellus do to try and find out from Justus why Miriam's disposition improves so suddenly?

7. What incident results in Demetrius having to run away and leave Marcellus?

8. How does Demetrius compare the ways in which the Roman emperors get armies to give up their lives to the ways in which Jesus commands loyalty?

9. What is making the master-slave relationship between Marcellus and Demetrius more and more difficult to sustain by Chapter 11?

10. Why does Justus believe he has betrayed his people at the end of Chapter 17?

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