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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can Elisha's life be described?
(a) As one of faith, honor, and dignity.
(b) As a life of shame and embarrassment.
(c) As a life of fear and self-loathing.
(d) As one of controversy and dissent and of questioning and seeking truth.

2. What happens when Meir and Elisha part ways?
(a) Meir walks on with Elisha.
(b) Meir watches Elisha walk away until he can no longer be seen.
(c) Elisha watches Meir walk away until he can no longer be seen.
(d) Meir swears to never tell a soul about seeing Elisha.

3. Meir walks with Elisha until they reach the boundary which marks what?
(a) The beginning of Roman territory.
(b) The entrance to Caesarea.
(c) The separation between Jews and Romans.
(d) Where Jews are not allowed to cross on the Sabbath.

4. What feeling does Elisha experiences after his conversation with Charicles?
(a) Overwhelming remorse at having influenced Charicles so negatively.
(b) Failure.
(c) Great anger and jealousy at the popularity of Charicles.
(d) Relief.

5. How are the conditions of the jail described to Elisha?
(a) Fair conditions.
(b) Royal and plush.
(c) Terrible.
(d) Comfortable.

6. When does Elisha leave the arena?
(a) After the first killing.
(b) The next day when the attendants find him.
(c) Before the executions.
(d) Elisha leaves only when the harlot tells him to.

7. Where is Elisha taken after the executions?
(a) To the home of Nicholaus, who cares for him.
(b) To Rufus.
(c) To jail.
(d) To the home of Pappas, who has been executed.

8. How does Elisha look when he hears Charicles speak at Antioch?
(a) Ravaged and he has white hair.
(b) Distracted by his own memories of betrayal.
(c) Worried by the outlandish ideas Charicles speaks of.
(d) Appears youthful and vibrant, despite his age.

9. As Elisha and Pappas travel back through the lands of their birth, what do they find has become of their homes?
(a) Roman soldiers now occupy them.
(b) New families live there, and not much else has changed.
(c) They have been destroyed.
(d) They are no loger welcomed because no one knows them anymore.

10. What is Elisha amazed to find even on death row?
(a) The Rabbis still believe the faith will survive.
(b) The Rabbis have lost their faith.
(c) The Jewish prisoners are on death row.
(d) The Roman soldiers treat the Jewish prisoners with dignity.

11. Why does Elisha arrange to meet with Demonax?
(a) To try and convert Demonax.
(b) To see if he will take Elisha on as a student.
(c) To arrest Demonax and take him to the proper authorities.
(d) To see if Demonax is as superior as he claims.

12. Why does Demonax recommend that Elisha see Poleman?
(a) Poleman can outline Elisha's reading for him.
(b) Poleman taught Demonax everything he knows.
(c) Poleman has questions he feels only Elisha can answer.
(d) Poleman knows of a man who may be able to help Elisha.

13. What did Meir fight for concerning Elisha's death?
(a) For Elisha's excommunication to be lifted by the Sanhedrin.
(b) For Elisha's right to have a rabbi's funeral.
(c) Elisha's right to be buried in his town's cemetery.
(d) For Elisha's body to be cremated.

14. Where has Rufus erected his headquarters?
(a) The arena.
(b) Temple Mount.
(c) Damascus.
(d) The Sanhedrin.

15. Where do Elisha and Pappas go to meet with Rufus?
(a) Antioch.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) The Sanhedrin.
(d) Israel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do both Elisha and Pappas curtail their expenses and move to smaller apartments?

2. How are over thirty rabbis able to meet in the attic of a friend in Lydda?

3. Who does Elisha find in prison?

4. How do the great sages go to their deaths?

5. Why do Manto and Elisha always have a third person with them?

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