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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can Elisha's life be described?
(a) As one of faith, honor, and dignity.
(b) As a life of fear and self-loathing.
(c) As one of controversy and dissent and of questioning and seeking truth.
(d) As a life of shame and embarrassment.

2. What information about the new rabbis reaches Elisha in Caeserea?
(a) The new rabbis are missing.
(b) The new rabbi's names.
(c) He learns nothing about the new rabbis.
(d) The new rabbi's birthplaces.

3. What has Akiba predicted about the Roman Empire?
(a) The Roman Empire will someday fall.
(b) The Roman Empire will destroy the Jewsish faith.
(c) The Roman Empire will change some day.
(d) The Roman Empire will never fall.

4. Why has Akiba come to Antioch to raise money for war against the Romans?
(a) Because of the Emperor's plan to turn Israel into a site for pagans.
(b) He has joined the Jewish rebels.
(c) The Emperor is dedicating the temple to Jupiter.
(d) The Romans killed so many jews, and burned down the temple.

5. After Elisha receives a letter of commendation from head of the museum in Alexandria, who does he rush to show the letter to?
(a) Manto.
(b) Antiphanes.
(c) Akiba.
(d) Pappas.

6. How does Elisha feel about the Greek literature he has learned in his first three years in Antioch?
(a) Beneath the poetry and words there is fear and regret.
(b) He hates Greek literature.
(c) That he can't comprehend Greek literature fully.
(d) That the Greek way of life is the path he is meant to follow.

7. What does the realization, that reason could be based in myth, do to Elisha?
(a) Has little effect on Elisha's overall viewpoints.
(b) Rekindles Elisha's desire to seek answers.
(c) It kills Elisha.
(d) Settles what Elisha has always known.

8. As Elisha and Pappas travel back through the lands of their birth, what do they find has become of their homes?
(a) Roman soldiers now occupy them.
(b) They are no loger welcomed because no one knows them anymore.
(c) They have been destroyed.
(d) New families live there, and not much else has changed.

9. What does Meir tell Elisha about what the Sanhedrin has done?
(a) They revoked Elisha's miscommunication.
(b) They were destroyed by Romans.
(c) That the Sanhedrin is meeting again.
(d) The Sanhedrin has been disbanded.

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

11. How does Elisha feel about his quest to seek a reasoned certainty that would explain everything, including faith?
(a) Given the chance, he would not change anything.
(b) His quest was a vital part of faith.
(c) His quest was in vain.
(d) His quest has only strengthened his commitment to faith.

12. Who does Elisha encounter on the road to Caesarea?
(a) Meir.
(b) Roman soldiers.
(c) Rufus.
(d) Pappas.

13. What causes Charicles to change his mind about Elisha?
(a) A Rabbi tells Charicles who Elisha is.
(b) Charicles realizes that Elisha is a Rabbi.
(c) Charicles never changes his mind about Elisha.
(d) He hears Elisha speak.

14. Who does Elisha find in prison?
(a) Pappas.
(b) Deborah.
(c) Joseph ben Sera.
(d) Akiba.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the new rabbis after Judah ben Baba ordains them?

2. What does Elisha feel shamed by?

3. What is the strength of the Jewish faith expected to outlast?

4. Why does Elisha arrange to meet with Demonax?

5. How does Charicles first feel about Elisha?

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