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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 Marcellus intend to do with all of the homespun goods he has and does not need?

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

3. When Marcellus rhetorically asks Miriam what constitutes freedom, what does she answer?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Justus explain to Marcellus Jesus's idea of people giving things away without worrying about providing for their own dependents?

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

5. Why does Jesus refer to Bartholomew as Nathanael?

6. Why is Celia, Quintus' wife, beside herself with anxiety and jealousy concerning Prince Gaius?

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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