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

2. On the night Jesus is on trial, what does his disciple Simon do that makes him sick with remorse?

3. What happens when Stephanos speaks to a crowd of priests and well-dressed men from the business district?

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

5. Why does Stephanos recognize Marcellus the moment he first sees him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is making the master-slave relationship between Marcellus and Demetrius more and more difficult to sustain by Chapter 11?

2. What does Marcellus do to try and find out from Justus why Miriam's disposition improves so suddenly?

3. What incident results in Demetrius having to run away and leave Marcellus?

4. What makes Miriam encourage Justus to tell Marcellus everything about Jesus?

5. When Simon Peter and Marcellus meet on the grassy knoll, what wrongdoings do they admit to one another that they need to repent for?

6. How does Simon, the big fisherman, come to know Demetrius?

7. Why does Jonathan give up his donkey to Thomas?

8. What does Justus make of the Centurian Hortensius's insistence on purchasing Jesse's camel with bone spavin?

9. When Marcellus receives a letter from Demetrius who is in Jerusalem, what does Demetrius suggest Marcellus do once he arrives there?

10. How does Demetrius compare the ways in which the Roman emperors get armies to give up their lives to the ways in which Jesus commands loyalty?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

In Chapter 21, the emperor forces Marcellus to leave Capri at once, telling him he is a fool. What does Tiberius have planned for Marcellus? Why would he not have him arrested for treason? Is it in Tiberius's interest to have Diana married off to Gaius instead of Marcellus?

Essay Topic 3

What choices do Marcellus and Diana make that affect many others? In what ways?

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