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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Elisha feel shamed by?
(a) By the dedication of his fellow rabbis.
(b) By having to sit next to a harlot at the executions.
(c) By how the other rabbis beg for their lives.
(d) By the idea that he caused the Jewish faith to end forever.

3. What does Charicles say about Euclid?
(a) Euclid should have been jailed for heresy.
(b) He was the greatest mind of his time.
(c) There are no proofs that Euclid was correct beyond doubt.
(d) Euclid was correct beyond doubt.

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

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

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

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 does Charicles first feel about Elisha?
(a) He admires Elisha for his faith.
(b) He tries to avoid talking to him.
(c) Pity for Elisha's troubled life.
(d) Disgust for Elisha's reputation.

9. How does Elisha look when he hears Charicles speak at Antioch?
(a) Distracted by his own memories of betrayal.
(b) Appears youthful and vibrant, despite his age.
(c) Worried by the outlandish ideas Charicles speaks of.
(d) Ravaged and he has white hair.

10. Why does Demonax recommend that Elisha see Poleman?
(a) Poleman knows of a man who may be able to help Elisha.
(b) Poleman can outline Elisha's reading for him.
(c) Poleman taught Demonax everything he knows.
(d) Poleman has questions he feels only Elisha can answer.

11. What do the Roman reinforcements bring with them?
(a) Horse drawn chariots.
(b) Medical supplies to help the wounded.
(c) Written demands from the Emperor.
(d) The plague.

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

13. What task has Rabbi Judah ben Baba been chosen for during the meeting in the attic?
(a) To conduct the sacrifice of a small sheep.
(b) To ask the Romans to leave them alone.
(c) To execute Elisha for his unbelief.
(d) To perform the ceremony for the new rabbis.

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

15. Why do Manto and Elisha always have a third person with them?
(a) Manto is uncomfortable around Elisha.
(b) Manto and Rufus always go everywhere together.
(c) So that Rufus will not be concerned about their relationship.
(d) Rufus orders it for their protection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the rabbis talk about during their meeting, other than keeping the faith alive and ordaining new rabbis?

2. How long does the siege on Bethar last?

3. Who does Rufus say will sit with Elisha during the upcoming trials?

4. How do the two men discuss the highest levels of philosophy?

5. Who brings Elisha the news that Manto is dying?

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