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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. What is the commander's response to the pleading of the sages?
(a) He has the sages executed.
(b) The commander does not change his orders.
(c) The commander releases the insurrection leaders.
(d) He orders the disbandment of the Sanhedrin.

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

3. What is the small delegation of the Sanhedrin sages alarmed by?
(a) The prospect of fighting a war.
(b) That everyone has lost faith in God.
(c) That they might completely overpower the Romans in this battle.
(d) The idea that no one is willing to fight for their beliefs.

4. Where does the plague strike?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Usher.
(c) Antioch.
(d) Palestine.

5. What happens when Elisha goes to Manto's home when she is alone?
(a) Elisha tells Manto he must leave Antioch.
(b) They consummate their love for one another.
(c) Manto tells Elisha that Rufus is planning on killing him.
(d) They discuss the arena where men and lions kill each other.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Elisha accidentally do in Jewish academy class one day?

3. Roman officers come to the house of Pappas to deliver what document to Elisha?

4. Who attends lecture and symposia with Elisha?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Elisha turn to after sharing his thoughts with Deborah, and why?

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

4. Do you think Shraga is right to rebel against the Roman government and fight for his beliefs?

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

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

7. Why does one rabbi give the opinion that wisdom cannot be found in pagan literature?

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

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

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

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