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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do both Elisha and Pappas curtail their expenses and move to smaller apartments?
(a) They are trying to live more humble lives.
(b) The economy of the area is devastated because of the war.
(c) They are saving money to help the Jews war with the Romans.
(d) They are preparing for the harsh winter.

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

4. What does Rufus say will happen to Elisha and Pappas if they do not comply?
(a) Their homes will be destroyed.
(b) They will be killed.
(c) They will be jailed.
(d) They will be exiled until they change their minds.

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

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

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

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

9. What happens to the new rabbis after Judah ben Baba ordains them?
(a) They convert to Buddhism.
(b) They escape from the Romans without harm.
(c) They disappear.
(d) They refuse to teach the people.

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

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

12. Why does Demonax refuse Elisha's request?
(a) Elisha's request is inappropriate.
(b) He is much too busy.
(c) He cannot teach Elisha anything that Elisha does not already know.
(d) He does not want to be associated with Elisha.

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

14. After 8 years in Antioch, Elisha writes a monograph detailing what?
(a) Elisha's study of Greek and Roman texts.
(b) Elisha's plan for his life studies.
(c) Elisha's experience as a rabbi in Israel.
(d) Elisha's life in Antioch.

15. When does Elisha leave the arena?
(a) Elisha leaves only when the harlot tells him to.
(b) The next day when the attendants find him.
(c) Before the executions.
(d) After the first killing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Elisha feel about his quest to seek a reasoned certainty that would explain everything, including faith?

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

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

5. Who does Elisha encounter on the road to Caesarea?

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