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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Elisha try to console Deborah after she becomes pregnant twice and loses both babies?
(a) Elisha offers to take her to a feast.
(b) Elisha buys her a servant girl.
(c) Elisha holds her hand in the garden.
(d) Elisha prepares a meal for her.

2. Who is the confusing and angry man Elisha meets at dinner before he meets Simeon ben Azzai and Simeon ben Zoma?
(a) Azzar, an old carpenter.
(b) Zion, a young rabbi.
(c) Shraga, a rebellious and almost insane fighter for the Jews.
(d) Josef, a member of the Sanhedrin.

3. Elisha returns home for major festivals and uses this time to learn what from Amram?
(a) How to become a great rabbi and sage.
(b) Why Abuyah read Greek and Roman documents.
(c) The ways of business and estate management.
(d) How to stop the Jewish rebels.

4. Where is Elisha sent, as a sage, to sit in court over a controversial issue?
(a) Tiberius.
(b) His hometown.
(c) Antioch.
(d) Corinth.

5. What is the result of the three years of instruction Elisha receives from Amram after his father's death?
(a) Elisha renounces his Jewish faith.
(b) Elisha becomes thoroughly Jewish in practice, appearance, and thought.
(c) Elisha begins his training to become a rabbi and sage.
(d) Elisha becomes thoroughly Jewish in practice and appearance, yet not in thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Uncle Amram take Elisha to begin his training to become a rabbi and sage?

2. Does Abuyah consort with pagan philosophers and read Greek books?

3. Why does the Sanhedrin send a delegation to Rome?

4. How does Elisha meet Akiba?

5. What gift does Elisha receive from Pappas?

(see the answer key)

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