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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does Elisha try to console Deborah after she becomes pregnant twice and loses both babies?
(a) Elisha buys her a servant girl.
(b) Elisha offers to take her to a feast.
(c) Elisha holds her hand in the garden.
(d) Elisha prepares a meal for her.

3. Who arranges that Elisha be released from jail?
(a) Pappas.
(b) Manto.
(c) Antiphanes.
(d) Rufus.

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

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

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

7. When Elisha and his friends are at the home of Simeon ben Azzai, what happens to their host?
(a) He claims he no longer trusts in God.
(b) The host kills the other Simeon.
(c) The host arrives completely drunk.
(d) Simeon ben Azzai says he is ready to meet God and dies in their arms.

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

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

10. Who attends lecture and symposia with Elisha?
(a) Manto.
(b) Pappas.
(c) Rufus.
(d) Antiphanes.

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

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

13. What is the small delegation of the Sanhedrin sages alarmed by?
(a) The idea that no one is willing to fight for their beliefs.
(b) That they might completely overpower the Romans in this battle.
(c) That everyone has lost faith in God.
(d) The prospect of fighting a war.

14. How does Joshua, his old instructor, feel about Elisha?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Very proud.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Sad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Elisha is going back to Nicholaus, what does he overhear his father say to Uncle Amram?

2. Why does Deborah encourage Elisha to curry the Shraga's favor?

3. Where are Elisha and Pappas going when they run into Theo?

4. Where does the plague strike?

5. How do the deaths from the plague affect Elisha?

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