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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Chapter XXI & Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the great sages go to their deaths?
(a) Knowing that they cannot save the Jewish faith.
(b) With dignity, displaying their great faith.
(c) While pleading for thier lives, and renouncing their religion.
(d) Cursing Elisha for his hand in their demise.

2. What vow does Elisha make to Manto before she dies in his arms?
(a) He will tell Rufus she loves him.
(b) He will love her forever.
(c) Nothing will stop him from completing his great project.
(d) He will find Rufus and aid him in his war efforts.

3. What do the workers, numbering over 500, want to do after the command to leave?
(a) Stay and fight.
(b) Pretend they do not hear the command.
(c) Go home to their families.
(d) Gladly leave.

4. Why is Abuyah considered something of a heretic among others in this society?
(a) He is late for Elisha's circumcision.
(b) His wife, Elisheba, died shortly after giving birth to his son.
(c) He spoke with Roman soldiers.
(d) He is known to have studied Greek and Roman works.

5. Who does Elisha find, to his delight and surprise, in Caeserea?
(a) His old tutor, Nicholaus.
(b) His wife, Deborah.
(c) Theo.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elisha say to the other rabbis after they witness a boy fall from a tree and die?

2. Who brings Elisha the news that Manto is dying?

3. How can Elisha's life be described?

4. What does Charicles say about Euclid?

5. What does Elisha accidentally do in Jewish academy class one day?

(see the answer key)

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