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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 tell Marcellus about his new religion?

2. What does Jesse sell to the Centurian named Hortensius?

3. Why are many merchants coming to the daily suppers at the Ecclesia?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the manner in which Marcellus has come to change by the end of Chapter 7. What has brought about this change? What might Marcellus main emotion be in order to summarize his new frame of mind?

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

Marcellus has a great effect on the people in Arpino where he works for a while as a scrivener for a wealthy man. How is Marcellus able to insinuate into these people's lives and hold sway over them? What accounts for his good cheer when he has lost his love, his family and his station in life?

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