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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XIV through XVII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who surprises Marcellus with a visit in Chapter 16?
(a) Lucia.
(b) Benjamin.
(c) Demetrius.
(d) Diana.

2. Who does Lucia's father, Marcus Gallio, insult in the senate?
(a) Decimus.
(b) Prince Gaius.
(c) Cornelius Capeto.
(d) Marcellus.

3. Who is beautiful, in her mid-forties, a cultured, gracious hostess, and probably the laziest woman in the whole Roman Empire?
(a) Cornelia Vipsania Gallio.
(b) Diana Gallus.
(c) Paula Gallus.
(d) Lucia Gallio.

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) The Romans do not allow it.
(b) The poor do not have the diseases the springs cure.
(c) The water is much too hot for them.
(d) It costs too much money.

5. What does Marcellus wish he had done before leaving for his departing ship?
(a) Left Demetrius behind.
(b) Refused his orders to go.
(c) Kissed Diana.
(d) Written a will.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jonathan reveal to Marcellus?

2. What does the newly purchased slave, Demetrius, do when he arrives at Lucia's home?

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

4. What does Marcellus do to Demetrius when the slave hesitates to give his master the robe to try on?

5. What does Marcellus ask of the innkeeper, Dion, at Eupolis that meets with Dion's disapproval?

(see the answer key)

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