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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Deborah's behavior and actions at the feast make very clear about her character?
(a) That she is warm and genuine.
(b) That she is very temperamental.
(c) That she values wealth more than friendship.
(d) That she is in love with Pappas.

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

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

4. Does Abuyah consort with pagan philosophers and read Greek books?
(a) When he was younger, but he does not do so anymore.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Sometimes, but he hides his beliefs from everyone.

5. Who goes mad and implicates Elisha as the one who created the disbelief in him?
(a) Simeon ben Zoma.
(b) Akiba.
(c) Simeon ben Azzai.
(d) Nicholaus.

6. What does Elisha tell Meir's wife?
(a) She has married an awful husband.
(b) He does not appreciate her advances toward him.
(c) He loves her.
(d) She should run away with him.

7. After sitting as an observer and Joshua's apprentice at Sanhedrin, what happened to Elisha?
(a) Elisha becomes a Bishop.
(b) Elisha is ordained as a Rabbi.
(c) Elisha leaves his wife.
(d) Elisha moves to Italy.

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

9. Who tells Elisha that there are rebels among the Jews?
(a) Uncle Amram.
(b) Deborah.
(c) Rabbi Peter.
(d) Rabbi Joshua.

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

11. 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?
(a) Elisha.
(b) Abuyah.
(c) A Rabbi.
(d) The Patriarch.

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

13. What gift does Elisha receive from Pappas?
(a) An expensive lamp.
(b) Old, ancient scrolls.
(c) A ring.
(d) A Greek book.

14. Soon after Elisha's conversation, a rider comes into town with what news?
(a) That the Temple has been completed.
(b) That the Romans have banned Jews from working on the Temple.
(c) That Meir has died in a horrible accident.
(d) That Elisha's wife has been injured.

15. Why is Rabbi Johannan amazed that Elisha is studying to become a rabbi?
(a) Because Elisha isn't intelligent enough to handle the job.
(b) Because Elisha is a Greek.
(c) Because Elisha is a lay carpenter.
(d) Because Elisha's father had strong sympathies for the Greek.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Pappas finds Elisha alone in the garden, what does he tell him?

2. What type of teaching does Amram follow in his life, and how important is it to him?

3. Once Elisha surveys the desolation at the Temple Mount, what does he tell Joshua?

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

5. What does Manto decide Elisha should do, after she becomes involved in his quest?

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