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

2. Who does Elisha know that dies of the plague?
(a) All of the members of the Sanhedrin.
(b) Joseph and Josiah.
(c) Deborah and her servant girl.
(d) Meir's children.

3. What is the origin of Theo's name?
(a) Greek.
(b) Danish.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Roman.

4. When Abuyah dies, who burns all the books and documents that are not Jewish?
(a) Uncle Amram.
(b) Theo.
(c) Nicholaus.
(d) Elisha.

5. What happened to the merchant's business after the court case?
(a) His business picked up and was better than before.
(b) He sold his business.
(c) His business was set on fire and he had to move to another building.
(d) His business went bankrupt and he was ostracized from the land.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose mother dies soon after childbirth?

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

3. Why is Abuyah considered something of a heretic among others in this society?

4. Why is Tobias, Elisha's steward, furious with Pappas and Elisha for their conversation with the Romans?

5. Who takes over Elisha's circumcision ceremony at the absence of Abuyah?

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