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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Elisha goes to Manto's home when she is alone?
(a) They consummate their love for one another.
(b) They discuss the arena where men and lions kill each other.
(c) Manto tells Elisha that Rufus is planning on killing him.
(d) Elisha tells Manto he must leave Antioch.

2. Who tells Elisha Pappas is not good company for him, and that he should not be reading Greek books?
(a) Uncle Amram.
(b) Josef.
(c) Akiba.
(d) Deborah.

3. 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's father had strong sympathies for the Greek.
(c) Because Elisha is a Greek.
(d) Because Elisha is a lay carpenter.

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

5. What is the commander's response to the pleading of the sages?
(a) He orders the disbandment of the Sanhedrin.
(b) He has the sages executed.
(c) The commander releases the insurrection leaders.
(d) The commander does not change his orders.

6. To which court does the the merchant take his case, after he leaves the Jewish court?
(a) The Grecian court.
(b) The Roman court.
(c) The merchant drops the case.
(d) The Elysian court.

7. Elisha's obsession with truth has caused what to dissolve?
(a) Elisha's stores of money have dissolved.
(b) Elisha's sanity has completely left.
(c) Elisha's marriage has begun to disintegrate.
(d) Some of Elisha's friendships have begun to dissolve.

8. How does Elisha begins his life as a Rabbi?
(a) Helping widows and children.
(b) Judging in Usha.
(c) By signing documents.
(d) Giving up all his possessions.

9. What are the names of Meir's children?
(a) Saul and Samuel.
(b) Uriah and Pariah.
(c) Sarah and Samuel.
(d) Samuel and Solomon.

10. When Elisha returns to his rooms, who wants to know what he is doing?
(a) The Roman government.
(b) A delegation of local Jews.
(c) A delegation of Jewish rebels.
(d) A gathering of Christian rebels.

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

12. Where is Elisha sent, as a sage, to sit in court over a controversial issue?
(a) Tiberius.
(b) His hometown.
(c) Antioch.
(d) Corinth.

13. Where are Elisha and Pappas going when they run into Theo?
(a) They are going to find Elisha's father and his uncle.
(b) They are headed to watch a cow give birth.
(c) They are going to study Greek and Roman works.
(d) They are going to find an encampment of Roman soldiers in the area.

14. Why is Elisha ashamed when he watches the spectacle at the local arena where men and lions kill each other?
(a) The grotesque violence causes him to laugh.
(b) His own feelings of bloodlust.
(c) He cannot stop the crowd of people from watching.
(d) Pappas cheers on the violence maniacally.

15. Before leaving the garden, Akiba pleads with Elisha to do what?
(a) Stay true to his quest for truth.
(b) Take Deborah back.
(c) Turn back before everything is lost.
(d) Stop the executions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the plague strike?

2. What is the name of Meir's wife?

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

4. How does Elisha respond when Deborah is trying to renew her marriage with him?

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

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