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

2. Who is second in command at Minoa?

3. What happens to Sextus to put him out of commission?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Marcus Gallio's attitude toward the acquisition of slaves?

2. When Lucia tells her friend, Diana, that Demetrius gave her a ring before he left with Marcellus, how does Diana react?

3. Why is Lucia so upset when Marcellus tells her that he laughed at Prince Gaius and his son at the previous night's banquet?

4. Why does Pontius Pilate wash his hands in a basin in view of the civilian audience of Jewish merchants?

5. What is Marcellus's condition when Demetrius returns home with him?

6. What information is Lucia attempting to extract from Demetrius concerning her brother in Chapter 1?

7. After Marcellus has touched the robe in Chapter 8 and feels a great relief, he speaks with Demetrius about it. Where does their conversation about the robe's powers lead to?

8. Why is Marcellus's being sent to a post in Minoa considered to be a form of exile for him?

9. What does Marcellus at first suspect of his slave, Demetrius, when Marcellus and his father are speaking in private and then open the door to the atrium?

10. What makes Tiberius suddenly change his mind about giving Marcellus a job in Capri?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Marcus Gallio's attitude toward slaves. Why does he choose to purchase slaves more privately than others do? Why does he sometimes pay more than he has to for his slaves?

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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