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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XVIII through XX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Marcellus react to seeing and hearing Miriam sing?
(a) He leaves before she sings.
(b) He is brought to tears.
(c) He is bored.
(d) He stares at the crowd, not understanding their joy.

2. What is the Sanhedrin?
(a) Jerusalem's security force.
(b) A group of moneylenders.
(c) The Greek army.
(d) A Jewish legislative body.

3. What does Tiberius tell Marcellus he must choose between?
(a) Diana or Jesus.
(b) Demetrius or the robe.
(c) LIfe or death.
(d) His father or his sister.

4. Why is it that the poor people of Galilee and Tiberias do not make use of the healing powers of the hot springs?
(a) It costs too much money.
(b) The water is much too hot for them.
(c) The Romans do not allow it.
(d) The poor do not have the diseases the springs cure.

5. Where does Demetrius go after hearing what has happened to Jesus?
(a) Galilee.
(b) Minoa.
(c) The praetorium.
(d) The high priest's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the scroll, the emperor sends Marcellus in Athens. What does he want Marcellus to do?

2. What is Diana's plan when she visits her grandfather, the emperor?

3. What does Demetrius decide to do with Melas, only to change his mind?

4. When Marcellus speaks of his irritation over mistreated animals, what subject does his traveling companion bring up in Chapter 12?

5. Why does Paulus state that if a dead man were to come back to life he would rather it be Jesus than Quintus, Julian or Pilate?

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