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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Elisha is notified that he is now a candidate for ordination, Deborah insists what of the servants?
(a) She insists they prepare a feast for themselves.
(b) She insists they take a week off.
(c) She insists they kneel before Elisha.
(d) She insists they call Elisha, Rabbi.

2. When Elisha begins his studies on Antioch, what does he study first?
(a) Advanced Greek grammer.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) The business of human trading.
(d) Basic Greek grammar, culture, and history.

3. What does Elisha realize about his two years of study and the knowledge he has gleaned?
(a) He needs to study harder.
(b) It has fulfilled all his expectations.
(c) It has not supplied the answers he so desperately needs.
(d) He must quit studying.

4. What does Elisha accidentally do in Jewish academy class one day?
(a) Trips over a student.
(b) Sets fire to the scrolls in class.
(c) Slams his fingers in the door.
(d) Drops a Greek scroll in class.

5. Why is Abuyah considered something of a heretic among others in this society?
(a) He is late for Elisha's circumcision.
(b) His wife, Elisheba, died shortly after giving birth to his son.
(c) He spoke with Roman soldiers.
(d) He is known to have studied Greek and Roman works.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pappas go back to Israel?

2. What idea does Elisha present to his friends about Greek literature?

3. How is Elisha welcomed when he arrives at the home of Pappas in Antioch?

4. When Abuyah dies, who burns all the books and documents that are not Jewish?

5. Where is Elisha sent, as a sage, to sit in court over a controversial issue?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Shraga treat Elisha when they're working on the merchant's court case together?

2. What did Elisha drop in his Jewish academy class?

3. Why is Elisha unjustly brought to court for sentencing?

4. After the ex-communication of Elisha was read at Sanhedrin, what did Joshua do?

5. Why do you think Deborah is not comfortable around Meir and his wife Beruriah?

6. Which friend of Elisha's is better at processing the Greek literature than the other two? Why?

7. Why did the merchant's business suffer after taking his case to the Roman courts?

8. How does Elisha handle his new life in Antioch?

9. Why is Elisha fascinated by Akiba when he meets him?

10. In Part One, Chapter V, how did Elisha feel about attending the Sanhedrin for the first time?

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