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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) That the Greek way of life is the path he is meant to follow.
(c) Beneath the poetry and words there is fear and regret.
(d) He hates Greek literature.

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

3. Where does Elisha go to begin his work for the Romans?
(a) Israel.
(b) The library.
(c) Caesarea.
(d) Rome.

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

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

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

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

8. What is Elisha amazed to find even on death row?
(a) The Rabbis still believe the faith will survive.
(b) The Roman soldiers treat the Jewish prisoners with dignity.
(c) The Rabbis have lost their faith.
(d) The Jewish prisoners are on death row.

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

10. What feeling does Elisha experiences after his conversation with Charicles?
(a) Relief.
(b) Great anger and jealousy at the popularity of Charicles.
(c) Overwhelming remorse at having influenced Charicles so negatively.
(d) Failure.

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

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

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

14. What happens when Meir and Elisha part ways?
(a) Meir swears to never tell a soul about seeing Elisha.
(b) Meir watches Elisha walk away until he can no longer be seen.
(c) Elisha watches Meir walk away until he can no longer be seen.
(d) Meir walks on with Elisha.

15. Why does Elisha arrange to meet with Demonax?
(a) To arrest Demonax and take him to the proper authorities.
(b) To see if he will take Elisha on as a student.
(c) To see if Demonax is as superior as he claims.
(d) To try and convert Demonax.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who encourages Elisha to publish his monograph?

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

3. What did Meir fight for concerning Elisha's death?

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

5. What does Meir tell Elisha about what the Sanhedrin has done?

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