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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elisha accidentally do in Jewish academy class one day?
(a) Trips over a student.
(b) Slams his fingers in the door.
(c) Sets fire to the scrolls in class.
(d) Drops a Greek scroll in class.

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

3. To which court does the the merchant take his case, after he leaves the Jewish court?
(a) The Roman court.
(b) The merchant drops the case.
(c) The Elysian court.
(d) The Grecian court.

4. How does Elisha feel about Meir's marriage?
(a) Wishes his marriage was like Meir's.
(b) Feels should Meir treated his wife better.
(c) Feels Meir's wife should be more submissive.
(d) Glad his marriage is nothing like Meir's.

5. What does Elisha's life revolve around once he begins his studies?
(a) Manto.
(b) Greek and Roman mythology.
(c) Antiphanes.
(d) Books.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Elisha meet Akiba?

2. Who is the leader of the rebels?

3. When Elisha and his friends are at the home of Simeon ben Azzai, what happens to their host?

4. What does Nicholaus tell Elisha when Elisha says he cannot repress his feelings and obsession with finding the truth?

5. Which renewed friend provides Elisha with a cover to get the books he needs?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Prologue, what do the sages debate over and what do they decide?

2. Why was Elisha and Deborah's marriage pre-arranged by Amram?

3. Why does Julianus of Tarsus encourage the Jews to fight?

4. What is the job of the Sanhedrin?

5. Do you think Elisha manipulated his friends to study Greek literature for his own purposes?

6. Why is Elisha unjustly brought to court for sentencing?

7. Elisha sees a young boy climbing a tree for bird eggs. What happens to the little boy and how does it affect Elisha?

8. Why do Antiphanes and Elisha attend all the lectures and symposia offered in Antioch?

9. How does Simeon ben Azzai die?

10. What do you think Abuyah means by his dying words to Elisha?

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