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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Amram decide not to let Elisha become married to Theo?
(a) Deborah's family is much wealthier than Theo's.
(b) Amram knows that Elisha is in love with Deborah.
(c) Amram thinks Theo distracts Elisha from his studies.
(d) Because Theo's family is part Greek.

2. What does Elisha say to the other rabbis after they witness a boy fall from a tree and die?
(a) That he is to leave this world, immediately.
(b) That there is no God.
(c) That the father of the boy be put on trial for negligence.
(d) That it was all a part of God's divine plan.

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

4. How many years did Elisha sit as an observer and Joshua's apprentice at the Sanhedrin?
(a) Thirteen Years.
(b) Fourteen Years.
(c) Two Years.
(d) Five Years.

5. What happens to Eliezer's proposal concerning the ban against pagan literature?
(a) It is voted down.
(b) It is laughed out of court.
(c) It is adopted and set into motion.
(d) It creates a tie in the Sanhedrin.

6. Where does the plague strike?
(a) Palestine.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Usher.
(d) Antioch.

7. When Elisha begins his studies on Antioch, what does he study first?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Basic Greek grammar, culture, and history.
(c) The business of human trading.
(d) Advanced Greek grammer.

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

9. Which two friends of Elisha are going insane because of the knowledge they have gained from Greek literature?
(a) Akiba and Simeon ben Azzai.
(b) Simeon ben Zoma and Akiba.
(c) None of Elisha's friends are going insane.
(d) The two Simeons.

10. What happens when Palestine learns of Trajan's edict that the Temple may be rebuilt?
(a) Palestine mourns.
(b) Palestine businesses close down.
(c) Palestine petitions for the decision to be reversed.
(d) Money pours in from the Jewish people.

11. What does Elisha discuss with Justin, the leader of the Gentile Christians?
(a) The methodology of religion with Justin.
(b) The phonology of religion with Justin.
(c) The syntax of religion with Justin.
(d) The morphology of religion with Justin.

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

13. Why does Pappas go back to Israel?
(a) To bring Deborah back to Antioch with him.
(b) To ask rabbi Joshua for advice concerning Elisha.
(c) To inform the Sanhedrin that Elisha has no intent to return to Israel.
(d) To extract a message of intent from the Sanhedrin concerning Elisha.

14. What does Elisha realize about his two years of study and the knowledge he has gleaned?
(a) It has not supplied the answers he so desperately needs.
(b) He must quit studying.
(c) It has fulfilled all his expectations.
(d) He needs to study harder.

15. Who arrives on a Roman ship at the port of Antioch?
(a) Deborah.
(b) Pappas.
(c) Rufus.
(d) A delegation of the Sanhedrin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nicholaus try to convince Elisha to do?

2. Who does Elisha know that dies of the plague?

3. Who goes mad and implicates Elisha as the one who created the disbelief in him?

4. How does Elisha feel about the subject of human trading?

5. What is the result of the three years of instruction Elisha receives from Amram after his father's death?

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