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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. Why is Elisha overcome with discontent when he visits with Meir and Beruriah?
(a) Meir and Beruriah mock Elisha for his educational background.
(b) He lacks the proper education to study Greek literature well.
(c) They tell him that the Sanhedrin will indict him.
(d) They tell Elisha that they can no longer see him.

2. What do Deborah's behavior and actions at the feast make very clear about her character?
(a) That she is in love with Pappas.
(b) That she values wealth more than friendship.
(c) That she is very temperamental.
(d) That she is warm and genuine.

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

4. Why is Elisha ashamed when he watches the spectacle at the local arena where men and lions kill each other?
(a) The grotesque violence causes him to laugh.
(b) Pappas cheers on the violence maniacally.
(c) He cannot stop the crowd of people from watching.
(d) His own feelings of bloodlust.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Elisha try to console Deborah after she becomes pregnant twice and loses both babies?

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

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

4. Whose mother dies soon after childbirth?

5. Who does Elisha find, to his delight and surprise, in Caeserea?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Pappas tell Elisha that he may move with him to Antioch?

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

5. What does the delegation of the local Jews want to know about Elisha?

6. How does Simeon ben Azzai die?

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

8. In Part One, Chapter XX, what advice does Nicholaus give to Elisha about Elisha's obsession with Greek literature?

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

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

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