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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 did Miriam obtain her freedom?
(a) By singing for it.
(b) By pretending she is happy.
(c) It was a gift.
(d) She paid for it.

2. Who surprises Marcellus with a visit in Chapter 16?
(a) Diana.
(b) Benjamin.
(c) Demetrius.
(d) Lucia.

3. What does Jonathan reveal to Marcellus?
(a) He has never had a donkey.
(b) He is also rich.
(c) Jesus straightened his foot.
(d) Justus is his grandfather.

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

5. On the night Jesus is on trial, what does his disciple Simon do that makes him sick with remorse?
(a) He turns Jesus in to the authorities.
(b) He disbelieves in Jesus's miracles.
(c) He denies knowing Jesus.
(d) He does not fight off the Roman soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Marcellus answer when Miriam asks him what he is really doing in Galilee?

3. What does Marcellus purchase from Deborah on their way to Sepphoris?

4. What does do Marcellus do with Jasper?

5. What does Marcellus tell his father he intends to report to Tiberius concerning Jesus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. Why does Paulus decide to let Demetrius go free in Chapter 18?

6. 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?

7. What does Justus make of the Centurian Hortensius's insistence on purchasing Jesse's camel with bone spavin?

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

9. When Marcellus arrives at Benyosef's shop in Jerusalem, why is it that he does not find Demetrius there?

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

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