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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Chapters V-IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Abuyah's dying wish for Elisha to fulfill?
(a) That Elisha will be wholehearted and not torn in two.
(b) That Elisha do what his uncle, Amram, tells him to do.
(c) That Elisha train to become a rabbi and sage.
(d) That Elisha burn all books and documents that are not Jewish.

2. Why is Abuyah considered something of a heretic among others in this society?
(a) He spoke with Roman soldiers.
(b) He is known to have studied Greek and Roman works.
(c) He is late for Elisha's circumcision.
(d) His wife, Elisheba, died shortly after giving birth to his son.

3. Who does Elisha find out he has been betrothed to?
(a) Zoma.
(b) Theo.
(c) Shraga.
(d) Deborah.

4. Who takes over Elisha's circumcision ceremony at the absence of Abuyah?
(a) Elisheba.
(b) Eliezer.
(c) Uncle Amram.
(d) Joshua.

5. Who tells Elisha that there are rebels among the Jews?
(a) Rabbi Joshua.
(b) Uncle Amram.
(c) Rabbi Peter.
(d) Deborah.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose mother dies soon after childbirth?

2. 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?

3. How does Elisha meet Akiba?

4. Why does the Sanhedrin send a delegation to Rome?

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

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