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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Greek scholar who instructs Elisha as a boy?
(a) Abuyah.
(b) Theo.
(c) Pappas.
(d) Nicholaus.

2. What type of teaching does Amram follow in his life, and how important is it to him?
(a) Amram is an unrelenting zealot in the Jewish tradition.
(b) Amram is an unrelenting zealot in the Greek tradition.
(c) Amram follows both the Greek and Jewish teachings.
(d) Amram is an atheist.

3. How does Elisha meet Akiba?
(a) At the Sanhedrin during the proceedings.
(b) At a dinner.
(c) Akiba is Elisha's teacher.
(d) Rabbi Joshua introduces them when they get to the Sanhedrin.

4. When Elisha is notified that he is now a candidate for ordination, Deborah insists what of the servants?
(a) She insists they prepare a feast for themselves.
(b) She insists they call Elisha, Rabbi.
(c) She insists they take a week off.
(d) She insists they kneel before Elisha.

5. Why does the Sanhedrin send a delegation to Rome?
(a) Roman soldiers are traveling to close to the Sanhedrin.
(b) The Sanhedrin is asking to rebuild their temple.
(c) The Sanhedrin is concerned about rebel Jews.
(d) Rome has threatened to rebuild the temple for the Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift does Elisha receive from Pappas?

2. While the seventy sages of the Sanhedrin are in session, who raises the question about whether a man should use Greek books and letters to read and study?

3. Who is the confusing and angry man Elisha meets at dinner before he meets Simeon ben Azzai and Simeon ben Zoma?

4. Why does Deborah encourage Elisha to curry the Shraga's favor?

5. Whose mother dies soon after childbirth?

(see the answer key)

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