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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pilate dip his hands in a basin of water and fling the water off his fingers?

2. What gets Benjamin excited when Demetrius tells him about what happened to Jesus?

3. What does Marcellus do at a banquet to offend Prince Gaius?

4. Why is Zenos's master, Popygos, upset about the constant quarrels between the Romans and the Jews?

5. What does Marcellus do the morning after feeling cleansed by touching the robe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Marcus Gallio's attitude toward the acquisition of slaves?

3. What makes Tiberius suddenly change his mind about giving Marcellus a job in Capri?

4. What does Demetrius tell Marcellus about his belief in the gods?

5. Why does the emperor become especially interested when Marcus asks him if he has ever heard of the messiah?

6. Why is it that Marcus's father does not believe Marcus should apologize to Gaius?

7. When Marcellus asks Paulus if he ever tries to make up one of his own gods, how does Paulus respond?

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hariph visits Marcellus in his tent and tells him stories of Jesus healing people, turning water into wine, and feeding a crowd of five thousand with small basket of bread and two fish. Of these stories, why is it that Marcellus believes the story of feeding the people the most? How does this story connect the most for him with the sayings of Jesus?

Essay Topic 2

On the road to Jerusalem, Demetrius sees the Galilean, Jesus, for the first time. How is Demetrius affected by the sight of Jesus? How are those around Jesus responding to him? What is different about Demetrius's response? What does Demetrius have in common with Jesus? Explain why they both have this emotion in common.

Essay Topic 3

What choices do Marcellus and Diana make that affect many others? In what ways?

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