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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. When Marcellus rhetorically asks Miriam what constitutes freedom, what does she answer?
(a) The ability to love.
(b) Absence of chains.
(c) Being able to walk.
(d) The truth.

2. What does Jesus do when he and his followers are on a boat and a huge storm comes to threaten their lives?
(a) He tells the storm to be still, and it stops.
(b) He helps the men bail out water.
(c) He steers the boat to safety.
(d) He sleeps until the storm is over.

3. 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 to be beheaded.
(b) He has been murdered on the spot.
(c) He has been released.
(d) He is being sent to Rome.

4. What does Jesus do for Hortensius's orderly?
(a) Frees him from slavery.
(b) Wakes him from death.
(c) Cures him of palsy.
(d) He does his work for him.

5. What does Tiberius tell Marcellus he must choose between?
(a) Demetrius or the robe.
(b) Diana or Jesus.
(c) LIfe or death.
(d) His father or his sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jonathan reveal to Marcellus?

2. What happens to Pilate after the crucifixion?

3. What does do Marcellus do with Jasper?

4. What has the group Simon called together for a daily supper been doing?

5. What happens when Stephanos speaks to a crowd of priests and well-dressed men from the business district?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How does Simon, the big fisherman, come to know Demetrius?

4. What part of Justus's personality does Marcellus see in Cana that he has not noticed before?

5. When Marcellus receives a letter from Demetrius who is in Jerusalem, what does Demetrius suggest Marcellus do once he arrives there?

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

7. When Simon Peter and Marcellus meet on the grassy knoll, what wrongdoings do they admit to one another that they need to repent for?

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

9. Why is it that Marcipor does not want to let Marcellus know about his turn to Christianity at this point?

10. Why does Paulus tell Marcellus that he would be wise to leave for Joppa and make his way back to Rome?

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