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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What fate does Elisha accept?
(a) The fate of eternal damnation.
(b) That he will never find the answers he is searching for.
(c) To question everything in his final moments.
(d) That he is a man without religion and without country.

5. What does Elisha say in response to Meir when Meir asks Elisha to come home with him?
(a) He does not want to be a burden.
(b) He is going to the Sanhedrin.
(c) He declines and says he is going on a long journey.
(d) He accepts the invitation graciously.

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

7. 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.

8. Who brings Elisha the news that Manto is dying?
(a) Rufus.
(b) Poleman.
(c) Pappas.
(d) Manto's maid.

9. Where do Elisha and Pappas go to meet with Rufus?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Antioch.
(c) Israel.
(d) The Sanhedrin.

10. As Meir is weeping at Elisha's grave, how does Meir remember Elisha?
(a) With contempt and malice for his betrayal.
(b) As the old man who caused so much suffering.
(c) With love and regret that Elisha's dreams had to die.
(d) With remorse and sympathy for his lost faith.

11. 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.

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

13. What happens after Judah ben Baba ordains the new rabbi at their secret meeting?
(a) Judah ben Baba flees to Morocco.
(b) The Romans find Judah ben Baba and kill him.
(c) The Persians attack Rome.
(d) Elisha talks with Judah ben Baba about logic and faith.

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

15. Where does Elisha go to escape the cold of the blizzard?
(a) The home of Pappas.
(b) The library.
(c) The Sanhedrin.
(d) The headquarters of Rufus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why has Akiba come to Antioch to raise money for war against the Romans?

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

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

5. As Elisha and Pappas travel back through the lands of their birth, what do they find has become of their homes?

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