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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Elisha based his entire life and course of studies on?
(a) The fact of mathematics.
(b) Jewish traditions and values.
(c) Business management.
(d) Greek and Roman literature.

2. What is the strength of the Jewish faith expected to outlast?
(a) The war against the Jews.
(b) The Jews who practice it.
(c) The vast studies and wisdom of the Romans and Greeks.
(d) The paganism practiced by the Romans.

3. What does Elisha realize about the peddlers as they sing their wares?
(a) Messages are being sent in Hebrew.
(b) They love to sing lullabies.
(c) Peddlers are incoherent babblers.
(d) They will cheat everyone out of their money.

4. How are the conditions of the jail described to Elisha?
(a) Royal and plush.
(b) Fair conditions.
(c) Comfortable.
(d) Terrible.

5. Why does Elisha return to Antioch?
(a) To complete his studies.
(b) To attend the funeral of his good friend, Pappas.
(c) To ask Pappas for forgiveness.
(d) To end the war, and free his people.

6. Who does Rufus say will sit with Elisha during the upcoming trials?
(a) His mother.
(b) A harlot.
(c) Pappas.
(d) Nobody.

7. What does Elisha say in response to Meir when Meir asks Elisha to come home with him?
(a) He accepts the invitation graciously.
(b) He does not want to be a burden.
(c) He declines and says he is going on a long journey.
(d) He is going to the Sanhedrin.

8. How are over thirty rabbis able to meet in the attic of a friend in Lydda?
(a) They pretend to be old women attending a knitting party.
(b) The rabbis experience no problems and meet without disguise.
(c) They pretend to be merchants attending a market.
(d) They pretend to be lepers.

9. Meir walks with Elisha until they reach the boundary which marks what?
(a) Where Jews are not allowed to cross on the Sabbath.
(b) The entrance to Caesarea.
(c) The beginning of Roman territory.
(d) The separation between Jews and Romans.

10. What is Elisha's great undoing?
(a) His reasoned certainty that life is easy.
(b) His unwillingness to compromise his views.
(c) His conversation with Charicles.
(d) His unwavering faith.

11. What happens to Elisha's grave?
(a) The gravestone is removed.
(b) Elisha's grave is moved to Meir's town cemetery.
(c) Lightning strikes Elisha's grave.
(d) It is destroyed by Roman soldiers.

12. How do the two men discuss the highest levels of philosophy?
(a) With disgust.
(b) From the standpoint of men who have great faith.
(c) As men who have devoted their lives to the study of philosophy.
(d) Without much passion or wit.

13. What does Elisha ask of Rufus in return for his cooperation?
(a) To destroy the Sanhedrin.
(b) To stop the war.
(c) To forgive him.
(d) To not kill Pappas.

14. How do the great sages go to their deaths?
(a) Cursing Elisha for his hand in their demise.
(b) Knowing that they cannot save the Jewish faith.
(c) While pleading for thier lives, and renouncing their religion.
(d) With dignity, displaying their great faith.

15. What has Demonax studied all available information on for years and found nothing to use?
(a) Business management.
(b) Paganism.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Greek literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fate does Elisha accept?

2. What does Charicles finally say about mathematics and science?

3. How does Elisha try to deceive Rufus?

4. What information about the new rabbis reaches Elisha in Caeserea?

5. What happens to people who are caught practicing Jewish traditions and teachings?

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