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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Elisha tell Meir about faith and reason?
(a) Faith and reason coexist and comingle.
(b) Faith is the nemesis of reason.
(c) Faith is more important than reason.
(d) Reason is more important than faith.

5. Where has Rufus erected his headquarters?
(a) The Sanhedrin.
(b) Damascus.
(c) The arena.
(d) Temple Mount.

6. How do the two men discuss the highest levels of philosophy?
(a) With disgust.
(b) Without much passion or wit.
(c) From the standpoint of men who have great faith.
(d) As men who have devoted their lives to the study of philosophy.

7. What has Demonax studied all available information on for years and found nothing to use?
(a) Metaphysics.
(b) Business management.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Greek literature.

8. Who encourages Elisha to publish his monograph?
(a) Pappas.
(b) The librarian.
(c) Manto.
(d) Antiphanes.

9. What does Elisha ask of Rufus in return for his cooperation?
(a) To stop the war.
(b) To destroy the Sanhedrin.
(c) To not kill Pappas.
(d) To forgive him.

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

11. How does Elisha try to deceive Rufus?
(a) By poisoning Rufus during dinner.
(b) By not telling Rufus some important information about the Jews.
(c) By escaping and running away.
(d) By lying to Rufus by making up facts about the Jews.

12. What happens to people who are caught practicing Jewish traditions and teachings?
(a) No one in the book practices Jewish traditions and teachings.
(b) They are praised.
(c) They are executed.
(d) No one is caught.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Elisha's great undoing?

2. Meir walks with Elisha until they reach the boundary which marks what?

3. What do the people of Bethar do when they realize that the Romans will soon overrun their town?

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

5. Why does Demonax recommend that Elisha see Poleman?

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