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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Chapters XV - XVII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After sitting as an observer and Joshua's apprentice at Sanhedrin, what happened to Elisha?
(a) Elisha is ordained as a Rabbi.
(b) Elisha leaves his wife.
(c) Elisha becomes a Bishop.
(d) Elisha moves to Italy.

2. What is Deborah bothered by when around Meir and his wife?
(a) They're richer than her.
(b) They're not wealthy.
(c) They live in squalor.
(d) Their children are annoying.

3. What task has Rabbi Judah ben Baba been chosen for during the meeting in the attic?
(a) To execute Elisha for his unbelief.
(b) To perform the ceremony for the new rabbis.
(c) To conduct the sacrifice of a small sheep.
(d) To ask the Romans to leave them alone.

4. How does Elisha feel about the subject of human trading?
(a) Impressed.
(b) He considers it a necessary evil.
(c) Disgusted.
(d) He plans to pursue it as a future career.

5. What sort of people does Elisha find himself in the company of after accepting an invitation to dinner by one of the rhetoricians?
(a) Both religious zealots and scientists.
(b) Polite and well educated.
(c) Hedonistic and self centered.
(d) Rabbis and sages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attends lecture and symposia with Elisha?

2. On his next journey, when Elisha stops in a small town what does he see?

3. What does Manto decide Elisha should do, after she becomes involved in his quest?

4. What is Elisha dismayed to discover when he arrives to help with the court case?

5. How does Elisha begins his life as a Rabbi?

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