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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 has Akiba predicted about the Roman Empire?
(a) The Roman Empire will change some day.
(b) The Roman Empire will never fall.
(c) The Roman Empire will destroy the Jewsish faith.
(d) The Roman Empire will someday fall.

2. What happens to Elisha's grave?
(a) Lightning strikes Elisha's grave.
(b) Elisha's grave is moved to Meir's town cemetery.
(c) The gravestone is removed.
(d) It is destroyed by Roman soldiers.

3. What task has Rabbi Judah ben Baba been chosen for during the meeting in the attic?
(a) To perform the ceremony for the new rabbis.
(b) To execute Elisha for his unbelief.
(c) To ask the Romans to leave them alone.
(d) To conduct the sacrifice of a small sheep.

4. What is Elisha amazed to find even on death row?
(a) The Rabbis have lost their faith.
(b) The Jewish prisoners are on death row.
(c) The Rabbis still believe the faith will survive.
(d) The Roman soldiers treat the Jewish prisoners with dignity.

5. How do the great sages go to their deaths?
(a) Knowing that they cannot save the Jewish faith.
(b) While pleading for thier lives, and renouncing their religion.
(c) With dignity, displaying their great faith.
(d) Cursing Elisha for his hand in their demise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do both Elisha and Pappas curtail their expenses and move to smaller apartments?

2. What fate does Elisha accept?

3. How does Elisha look when he hears Charicles speak at Antioch?

4. How does Elisha feel about the Greek literature he has learned in his first three years in Antioch?

5. What does Charicles finally say about mathematics and science?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is symbolic about Meir choosing to not walk with Elisha past the boundary where Jews are not allowed to cross on the Sabbath?

2. Was it wise for Elisha to pursue truth regardless of the consequences?

3. How did Meir honor Elisha after Elisha died?

4. What did the people of Bethar choose to do rather than face Roman slavery and torture?

5. What happened to Elisha after he was forced to watch the rabbis be executed?

6. Why does the bloody spectacle not humor the Romans?

7. Why did Charicles not want to speak with Elisha at first?

8. As Elisha and Pappas travel back to Jerusalem, how does their hometown look?

9. Rufus presents a life or death question to Pappas and Elisha. How does Elisha respond?

10. Where does Elisha go during the blizzard, and why?

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