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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. Where is Elisha sent, as a sage, to sit in court over a controversial issue?
(a) Antioch.
(b) Corinth.
(c) Tiberius.
(d) His hometown.

2. How many years did Elisha sit as an observer and Joshua's apprentice at the Sanhedrin?
(a) Two Years.
(b) Five Years.
(c) Fourteen Years.
(d) Thirteen Years.

3. What is the name of the Greek scholar who instructs Elisha as a boy?
(a) Pappas.
(b) Nicholaus.
(c) Abuyah.
(d) Theo.

4. Soon after Elisha's conversation, a rider comes into town with what news?
(a) That Meir has died in a horrible accident.
(b) That Elisha's wife has been injured.
(c) That the Romans have banned Jews from working on the Temple.
(d) That the Temple has been completed.

5. What happens when Palestine learns of Trajan's edict that the Temple may be rebuilt?
(a) Palestine petitions for the decision to be reversed.
(b) Palestine mourns.
(c) Money pours in from the Jewish people.
(d) Palestine businesses close down.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives on a Roman ship at the port of Antioch?

2. How does Joshua, his old instructor, feel about Elisha?

3. Who is the leader of the rebels?

4. Who stands up against the leader of the rebels?

5. Who arrives at the Temple Mount to stop the work on the rebuilding of the Temple?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think Abuyah means by his dying words to Elisha?

2. How does Elisha respond to the death of Beruriah and Meir's children?

3. Do you think Elisha manipulated his friends to study Greek literature for his own purposes?

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

5. What strikes Elisha as characteristic about the people of Antioch?

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

7. In Part One, Chapter VI, what does Uncle Amram teach Elisha about his estate?

8. Why was Elisha and Deborah's marriage pre-arranged by Amram?

9. Why does Elisha seek out the Christians and Gnostics?

10. How does Simeon ben Azzai die?

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