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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Deborah encourage Elisha to curry the Shraga's favor?
(a) She wants the Shraga to give Elisha more servants.
(b) She is concerned the Shraga wants to take Elisha away from her.
(c) She wants Elisha to become Shraga's disciple.
(d) She is concerned the Shraga might prevent his ordination.

2. After being asked to make a speech to a class in an academy, what does Elisha tell the students?
(a) To listen carefully to their teacher and the rabbis.
(b) Nothing.
(c) To study Greek and Roman literature as much as they can.
(d) To not believe anything they are taught in the academy.

3. How does Elisha plan to defend himself to the Sanhedrin?
(a) He will ask his friends to testify for his faith and character.
(b) He will explain how he built his faith on a foundation of truth.
(c) He intends on asking for forgiveness.
(d) He does not plan to defend himself.

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

5. What does Manto decide Elisha should do, after she becomes involved in his quest?
(a) Go back to Israel and stand trial.
(b) Be tutored by Antiphanes.
(c) Flee before his troubles worsen.
(d) Refuse to oppose the Sanhedrin.

6. What does Elisha acknowledge to Meir after receiving the news?
(a) The Sanhedrin will indict him, but he cannot stop searching for answers.
(b) The Sanhedrin will not indict him because he is so smart.
(c) The Sanhedrin will indict him, and he will stop asking questions.
(d) He no longer believes in god.

7. Elisha returns home for major festivals and uses this time to learn what from Amram?
(a) The ways of business and estate management.
(b) How to stop the Jewish rebels.
(c) Why Abuyah read Greek and Roman documents.
(d) How to become a great rabbi and sage.

8. What does Elisha's life revolve around once he begins his studies?
(a) Antiphanes.
(b) Books.
(c) Greek and Roman mythology.
(d) Manto.

9. What does Elisha think about his new wife after the week-long festival?
(a) He is disappointed.
(b) He is embarrassed by her.
(c) He hates her.
(d) He loves her.

10. What type of teaching does Amram follow in his life, and how important is it to him?
(a) Amram is an unrelenting zealot in the Jewish tradition.
(b) Amram is an atheist.
(c) Amram is an unrelenting zealot in the Greek tradition.
(d) Amram follows both the Greek and Jewish teachings.

11. How does Elisha respond when Deborah is trying to renew her marriage with him?
(a) Elisha is despondent and does not respond.
(b) Elisha is overjoyed, and decides they should be together.
(c) Elisha tells Deborah that he still loves her, but the cannot be together.
(d) Elisha tells Deborah he is leaving forever.

12. Roman officers come to the house of Pappas to deliver what document to Elisha?
(a) A summons to appear before the chief justice of the province.
(b) A letter from his wife, Deborah, pleading for his return.
(c) A welcome letter from the chief justice of the province.
(d) An order from the Roman empire to leave Antioch forever.

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

14. Whose mother dies soon after childbirth?
(a) Amram's mother.
(b) Abuyah's mother.
(c) Elisha's mother.
(d) Elisheba's mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which renewed friend provides Elisha with a cover to get the books he needs?

2. How many years did Elisha sit as an observer and Joshua's apprentice at the Sanhedrin?

3. What did rabbi Joshua do when the ex-communication of Elisha was read at Sanhedrin?

4. Who does Elisha try to find in the pagan part of Caeserea?

5. Where did Elisha travel while studying, attending academies, and sitting with the masters?

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