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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters I through IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marcellus do at a banquet to offend Prince Gaius?
(a) He laughs at Antonius and Gaius.
(b) He eats his food with the wrong utensils.
(c) He curses loudly.
(d) He claims the food is rotten.

2. What does Demetrius give to Lucia before he leaves with Marcellus?
(a) A warning.
(b) A letter.
(c) A ring.
(d) A poem.

3. Where does the slave Sevenus escape to?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Damascus.
(c) Gaza.
(d) Egypt.

4. What does Marcellus want Paulus to do after the fight?
(a) Leave Gaza.
(b) Apologize for his conduct.
(c) Bow down to him.
(d) Write an apology to Rome.

5. On the Roman caravan to Jerusalem, why is no one else traveling on the day the soldiers make their way along the highway running up from Hebron?
(a) Everone else is already there.
(b) There is a desert storm brewing.
(c) It is the sabbath and Jews cannot travel.
(d) People are afraid to walk near the soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is madly in love with Demetrius in Chapter II?

2. Who is beautiful, in her mid-forties, a cultured, gracious hostess, and probably the laziest woman in the whole Roman Empire?

3. What does Lucia want Marcellus to do when he goes to see Gaius?

4. What are Marcellus's orders from Prince Gaius?

5. What does Marcellus do that gains him favor with Paulus?

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