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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 Marcellus react to Justus's realization that he and Demetrius both know Benjamin?
(a) Marcellus questions Justus about Demetrius's character.
(b) Marcellus admits he knows Demetrius.
(c) Marcellus asks about Demetrius and his whereabouts.
(d) Marcellus glosses over it.

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 helps the men bail out water.
(b) He sleeps until the storm is over.
(c) He tells the storm to be still, and it stops.
(d) He steers the boat to safety.

3. When Justus tells Marcellus about his grandson's foot having healed, what is implied in his avoidance of Marcellus's questions about it?
(a) The boy has since died.
(b) Justus spent a lot of money to cure Jonathan.
(c) Jesus is the healer.
(d) The boy's foot is not really healed.

4. What does Demetrius reveal about himself to Paulus, the new commander at Capernaum?
(a) He has run away from Marcellus.
(b) He is a Christian.
(c) He meant to kill the Syrian slave.
(d) He is in love with Miriam.

5. What happens when Stephanos speaks to a crowd of priests and well-dressed men from the business district?
(a) The Roman soldiers arrest Stephanos for inciting a riot.
(b) They stone Stephanos to death.
(c) Stephanos begins to convert many.
(d) The crowd heckles Stephanos and leaves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is disturbing about Diana's scroll to Marcellus in Chapter 11?

3. When Marcellus speaks of his irritation over mistreated animals, what subject does his traveling companion bring up in Chapter 12?

4. What is the Ecclesia?

5. How does Miriam account to Marcellus for her sudden ability to sing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Miriam encourage Justus to tell Marcellus everything about Jesus?

2. After Marcellus tells his father of his experiences concerning Jesus, what does the senator advise him to do about it with Tiberius?

3. 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?

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

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. Why does Jesus refer to Bartholomew as Nathanael?

8. 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?

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

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

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