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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 great tragedy happened to Elisha's family?
(a) His grandparents died.
(b) Both his mother and father died.
(c) His mother died.
(d) His father died.

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

3. While the seventy sages of the Sanhedrin are in session, who raises the question about whether a man should use Greek books and letters to read and study?
(a) A Rabbi.
(b) Elisha.
(c) The Patriarch.
(d) Abuyah.

4. How does Elisha respond when Deborah is trying to renew her marriage with him?
(a) Elisha tells Deborah that he still loves her, but the cannot be together.
(b) Elisha is despondent and does not respond.
(c) Elisha is overjoyed, and decides they should be together.
(d) Elisha tells Deborah he is leaving forever.

5. Why has Elisha been called to return to Israel?
(a) To attend the funeral of Nicholaus.
(b) To lecture a class in an academy on the importance of truth in faith.
(c) To reforge the bond with his wife.
(d) To stand trial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Elisha travel while studying, attending academies, and sitting with the masters?

2. How does Elisha feel about the subject of human trading?

3. Who goes mad and implicates Elisha as the one who created the disbelief in him?

4. Does Abuyah consort with pagan philosophers and read Greek books?

5. What are the names of Meir's children?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In the Prologue, what do the sages debate over and what do they decide?

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

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

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

6. In Part One, Chapter X, does Elisha seem happy? Why?

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

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

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

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

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