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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 does Elisha realize about the peddlers as they sing their wares?
(a) Peddlers are incoherent babblers.
(b) Messages are being sent in Hebrew.
(c) They will cheat everyone out of their money.
(d) They love to sing lullabies.

2. Who does Elisha find in prison?
(a) Deborah.
(b) Joseph ben Sera.
(c) Pappas.
(d) Akiba.

3. Why do both Elisha and Pappas curtail their expenses and move to smaller apartments?
(a) They are preparing for the harsh winter.
(b) They are saving money to help the Jews war with the Romans.
(c) The economy of the area is devastated because of the war.
(d) They are trying to live more humble lives.

4. What does Elisha tell Meir about faith and reason?
(a) Faith and reason coexist and comingle.
(b) Faith is the nemesis of reason.
(c) Faith is more important than reason.
(d) Reason is more important than faith.

5. After Elisha receives a letter of commendation from head of the museum in Alexandria, who does he rush to show the letter to?
(a) Antiphanes.
(b) Manto.
(c) Akiba.
(d) Pappas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rufus do when he realizes Elisha has tried to deceive him?

2. Why do Manto and Elisha always have a third person with them?

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

4. After 8 years in Antioch, Elisha writes a monograph detailing what?

5. Who brings Elisha the news that Manto is dying?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Elisha's discussion with Charicles deeply disturb Elisha?

2. Why is Elisha not happy about his relationship with Manto?

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

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

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

6. Why do the rabbis have to meet in secret in the attic?

7. Why does Elisha decide not to reveal the names of the new rabbis to Rufus?

8. Why do Elisha and Manto hide their mutual love from Rufus, Manto's benefactor?

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

10. While in jail, Akiba makes a prediction. What does Akiba predict?

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