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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Chapters XII - XIV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Elisha try to console Deborah after she becomes pregnant twice and loses both babies?
(a) Elisha offers to take her to a feast.
(b) Elisha prepares a meal for her.
(c) Elisha buys her a servant girl.
(d) Elisha holds her hand in the garden.

2. Where is Elisha sent, as a sage, to sit in court over a controversial issue?
(a) Antioch.
(b) Tiberius.
(c) Corinth.
(d) His hometown.

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

4. Why is Elisha ashamed when he watches the spectacle at the local arena where men and lions kill each other?
(a) He cannot stop the crowd of people from watching.
(b) His own feelings of bloodlust.
(c) Pappas cheers on the violence maniacally.
(d) The grotesque violence causes him to laugh.

5. Why does Pappas go back to Israel?
(a) To inform the Sanhedrin that Elisha has no intent to return to Israel.
(b) To ask rabbi Joshua for advice concerning Elisha.
(c) To bring Deborah back to Antioch with him.
(d) To extract a message of intent from the Sanhedrin concerning Elisha.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Elisha go to escape the cold of the blizzard?

2. Why is Tobias, Elisha's steward, furious with Pappas and Elisha for their conversation with the Romans?

3. Where does Uncle Amram take Elisha to begin his training to become a rabbi and sage?

4. Why is Abuyah considered something of a heretic among others in this society?

5. Soon after Elisha's conversation, a rider comes into town with what news?

(see the answer key)

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