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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 should run away with him.
(b) He loves her.
(c) She has married an awful husband.
(d) He does not appreciate her advances toward him.

2. Who takes over Elisha's circumcision ceremony at the absence of Abuyah?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Eliezer.
(c) Elisheba.
(d) Uncle Amram.

3. Where are Elisha and Deborah to stay when at the feast?
(a) Akiba's house.
(b) Their own estate.
(c) Uncle Amram's estate.
(d) Rabbi Peter's home.

4. What is the name of the Greek scholar who instructs Elisha as a boy?
(a) Nicholaus.
(b) Theo.
(c) Pappas.
(d) Abuyah.

5. What did rabbi Joshua do when the ex-communication of Elisha was read at Sanhedrin?
(a) Said he knew of Elisha's Greek studies.
(b) Left the Sanhedrin in anguish over his friends misfortune.
(c) Introduced an interdict on Greek studies.
(d) Said he would go to Antioch and find Elisha by himself.

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

7. When Pappas finds Elisha alone in the garden, what does he tell him?
(a) That he loves Deborah.
(b) That he is moving to Antioch.
(c) That he wishes to move in with Elisha.
(d) That he is betrothed to Theo.

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

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

10. 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) Abuyah.
(b) Elisha.
(c) A Rabbi.
(d) The Patriarch.

11. 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.

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

13. Where does Uncle Amram take Elisha to begin his training to become a rabbi and sage?
(a) The Red Sea.
(b) The Home of Pappas.
(c) The Home of Rabbi Joshua.
(d) Rome.

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

15. Who does Elisha find, to his delight and surprise, in Caeserea?
(a) Theo.
(b) His old tutor, Nicholaus.
(c) His father.
(d) His wife, Deborah.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Elisha suspect the real truth lies?

2. What is the origin of Theo's name?

3. What is Deborah bothered by when around Meir and his wife?

4. After Elisha's first meeting with Rabbi Joshua, how does Rabbi Joshua win Elisha's confidence?

5. How does Elisha feel about Meir's marriage?

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