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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. What does Demetrius bring to Benjamin when he visits him in Chapter 9?
2. Why does Pilate dip his hands in a basin of water and fling the water off his fingers?
3. Where does Demetrius go after speaking with Zenos and his master, Polygos?
4. In Chapter 4, who does Demetrius believe the crowd of Jews is hovering around and shouting at?
5. Who does Lucia's father, Marcus Gallio, insult in the senate?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Demetrius tell Marcellus about his belief in the gods?
2. When Marcellus asks Paulus if he ever tries to make up one of his own gods, how does Paulus respond?
3. 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?
4. After Marcellus has touched the robe in Chapter 8 and feels a great relief, he speaks with Demetrius about it. Where does their conversation about the robe's powers lead to?
5. When Theodosia asks Demetrius if the robe is haunted, how does he answer?
6. Why does Benjamin question Demetrius so intently about Jesus in Chapter 9?
7. How does Marcellus find himself comparing Jesus to Plato?
8. Why does the emperor become especially interested when Marcus asks him if he has ever heard of the messiah?
9. How does Marcellus come to own Jesus's robe?
10. What is Marcus Gallio's attitude toward the acquisition of slaves?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When Benjamin, the weaver, questions both Demetrius and Marcellus about the last days of Jesus, what is so important to him about it? What bewilders Marcellus the most the man's reactions to his answers? Why?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What choices do Marcellus and Diana make that affect many others? In what ways?
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