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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impresses Elisha about the Roman court system?
(a) The expansive Greek reference library adjacent to the courtroom.
(b) The complete lack of prejudice against jewish people.
(c) The efficiency and professionalism.
(d) The lavish adornments, and the beautiful architecture.

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

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

4. Which renewed friend provides Elisha with a cover to get the books he needs?
(a) Meir.
(b) Nicholaus.
(c) Uncle Amram.
(d) Simeon.

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

6. On his next journey, when Elisha stops in a small town what does he see?
(a) A magician doing magic tricks.
(b) A small girl dying on the street.
(c) A washerwoman break her leg.
(d) A temple being built.

7. What sort of people does Elisha find himself in the company of after accepting an invitation to dinner by one of the rhetoricians?
(a) Rabbis and sages.
(b) Both religious zealots and scientists.
(c) Polite and well educated.
(d) Hedonistic and self centered.

8. When Elisha's trial period as a sage apprentice is over, what does he decide to do?
(a) He runs away from Uncle Amram.
(b) He swims in the Red Sea and drowns.
(c) He chooses to continue his training with Joshua.
(d) He returns home and learns carpentry with Pappas.

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

10. What news does Pappas return to Antioch with?
(a) The Sanhedrin now studies Greek and Roman literature.
(b) Deborah wants a divorce, and Joshua has become ill.
(c) Deborah wants to reconcile.
(d) The Sanhedrin does not want to extradite Elisha, and Joshua is dead.

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

12. What does Elisha accidentally do in Jewish academy class one day?
(a) Sets fire to the scrolls in class.
(b) Slams his fingers in the door.
(c) Drops a Greek scroll in class.
(d) Trips over a student.

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

14. After Elisha's first meeting with Rabbi Joshua, how does Rabbi Joshua win Elisha's confidence?
(a) Rabbi Joshua does not win Elisha's confidence at all.
(b) Rabbi Joshua proposes a trial period for them both.
(c) Elisha admires Joshuas modest life-style.
(d) Rabbi Joshua praises Elisha.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Who does Elisha find out he has been betrothed to?

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

5. Why has Elisha been called to return to Israel?

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