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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 is Demetrius's state of mind as he approaches the crucifixion site?

2. What position does Tiberius decide Marcellus is best suited for?

3. What is the Sanhedrin?

4. What does Demetrius believe he can help Marcellus do by going away to Athens together?

5. What is Demetrius's emotion when he realizes his master is winning the fight?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 is it that Marcus's father does not believe Marcus should apologize to Gaius?

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

6. When Marcellus writes a letter to Diana in Chapter 5, what does he decide to convey to her?

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

8. Why do the Sanhedrin want Pontius Pilate to stay on as procurator of Jerusalem?

9. Why is Zeno's master, Popygos, upset that everyone in Jerusalem is mixed up with the case of the man from Nazareth?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

On the road to Jerusalem, Demetrius sees the Galilean, Jesus, for the first time. How is Demetrius affected by the sight of Jesus? How are those around Jesus responding to him? What is different about Demetrius's response? What does Demetrius have in common with Jesus? Explain why they both have this emotion in common.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

While speaking with Marcus Gallio in Chapter 10, Emperor Tiberius begins to rant about the empire's administration in Jerusalem and Herod, the prefect. Discuss Tiberius's feelings towards Pontius Pilate and Herod. What does the world think of the Roman Empire according to Tiberius?

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