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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. Who arrives at the Temple Mount to stop the work on the rebuilding of the Temple?
(a) The Sanhedrin.
(b) The Roman cavalry.
(c) Elisha.
(d) Caesar.

2. What happens to Eliezer's proposal concerning the ban against pagan literature?
(a) It is adopted and set into motion.
(b) It is voted down.
(c) It is laughed out of court.
(d) It creates a tie in the Sanhedrin.

3. How does Elisha try to console Deborah after she becomes pregnant twice and loses both babies?
(a) Elisha holds her hand in the garden.
(b) Elisha buys her a servant girl.
(c) Elisha offers to take her to a feast.
(d) Elisha prepares a meal for her.

4. Who is the leader of the rebels?
(a) Maximus of Tarsus.
(b) Rabbi Joshua of Tarsus.
(c) Saul of Tarsus.
(d) Julianus of Tarsus.

5. Why is Rabbi Johannan amazed that Elisha is studying to become a rabbi?
(a) Because Elisha isn't intelligent enough to handle the job.
(b) Because Elisha is a Greek.
(c) Because Elisha is a lay carpenter.
(d) Because Elisha's father had strong sympathies for the Greek.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Palestine learns of Trajan's edict that the Temple may be rebuilt?

2. What did rabbi Joshua do when the ex-communication of Elisha was read at Sanhedrin?

3. Before leaving the garden, Akiba pleads with Elisha to do what?

4. What is the name of the Greek scholar who instructs Elisha as a boy?

5. Which two friends of Elisha are going insane because of the knowledge they have gained from Greek literature?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Nicholaus, Elisha's tutor, look like?

3. Why does Julianus of Tarsus encourage the Jews to fight?

4. What do the two famous sages, Eliezer and Joshua, discuss at Elisha's circumcision ceremony?

5. Who eavesdrops on a conversation between Elisha and Meir, and what does she discover?

6. Why is Manto so casual about buying another human slave?

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

8. What secret does Elisha tell Beruriah, and why?

9. What is the job of the Sanhedrin?

10. Why do Antiphanes and Elisha attend all the lectures and symposia offered in Antioch?

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