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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why do Akiba and Elisha not speak when they meet?
(a) Akiba and Elisha have no interest in each other.
(b) Akiba hates Elisha for what he did in Israel.
(c) Elisha is upset that Akiba did not stand by him in Israel.
(d) Akiba honors the commands of the ex-communication.

4. What do the rabbis talk about during their meeting, other than keeping the faith alive and ordaining new rabbis?
(a) That Elisha is helping the Romans.
(b) The weather.
(c) That Elisha has grown so wise and strong in his faith.
(d) The structure of Roman architecture.

5. What can Meir see in his old master's eyes?
(a) Disappointment.
(b) Anguish.
(c) Concern.
(d) Disillusionment.

6. How long does the siege on Bethar last?
(a) The siege never takes place.
(b) Three years.
(c) Four years.
(d) It never ends.

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

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

9. What did Meir fight for concerning Elisha's death?
(a) Elisha's right to be buried in his town's cemetery.
(b) For Elisha's excommunication to be lifted by the Sanhedrin.
(c) For Elisha's body to be cremated.
(d) For Elisha's right to have a rabbi's funeral.

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

11. 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) New families live there, and not much else has changed.
(c) They have been destroyed.
(d) They are no loger welcomed because no one knows them anymore.

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

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

14. Whose voice does Elisha recognize discussing cases in Jewish Law?
(a) Akiba's.
(b) Judah ben Sira's.
(c) Torah's.
(d) Theo's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Elisha return to Antioch?

2. What does Rufus do when he realizes Elisha has tried to deceive him?

3. What does Rufus want Elisha and Pappas to do?

4. As Meir is weeping at Elisha's grave, how does Meir remember Elisha?

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

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