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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After 8 years in Antioch, Elisha writes a monograph detailing what?
(a) Elisha's plan for his life studies.
(b) Elisha's experience as a rabbi in Israel.
(c) Elisha's life in Antioch.
(d) Elisha's study of Greek and Roman texts.

3. Where is Elisha taken after the executions?
(a) To Rufus.
(b) To the home of Pappas, who has been executed.
(c) To the home of Nicholaus, who cares for him.
(d) To jail.

4. Who encourages Elisha to publish his monograph?
(a) Manto.
(b) Pappas.
(c) The librarian.
(d) Antiphanes.

5. Where has Rufus erected his headquarters?
(a) Temple Mount.
(b) The arena.
(c) The Sanhedrin.
(d) Damascus.

6. How long does the siege on Bethar last?
(a) The siege never takes place.
(b) It never ends.
(c) Four years.
(d) Three years.

7. What fate does Elisha accept?
(a) That he is a man without religion and without country.
(b) That he will never find the answers he is searching for.
(c) To question everything in his final moments.
(d) The fate of eternal damnation.

8. What does Charicles finally say about mathematics and science?
(a) They should be forbidden.
(b) They are the laws that all men live by.
(c) They will replace faith some day.
(d) They could also be myths.

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

10. Where does Elisha go to begin his work for the Romans?
(a) Israel.
(b) Caesarea.
(c) The library.
(d) Rome.

11. Meir walks with Elisha until they reach the boundary which marks what?
(a) The beginning of Roman territory.
(b) The separation between Jews and Romans.
(c) The entrance to Caesarea.
(d) Where Jews are not allowed to cross on the Sabbath.

12. 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) They are trying to live more humble lives.
(d) The economy of the area is devastated because of the war.

13. What is the result of Elisha and Pappas visit with Rufus to ask him to convince the Emperor to change his plans?
(a) Rufus tries, but fails to convince the Emperor to change his plans.
(b) Rufus tells them that he can do nothing.
(c) Rufus convinces the Emperor to change his plans.
(d) Elisha insults Rufus.

14. Where does Elisha go to escape the cold of the blizzard?
(a) The Sanhedrin.
(b) The library.
(c) The headquarters of Rufus.
(d) The home of Pappas.

15. Why does Elisha return to Antioch?
(a) To complete his studies.
(b) To attend the funeral of his good friend, Pappas.
(c) To end the war, and free his people.
(d) To ask Pappas for forgiveness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rufus want Elisha and Pappas to do?

2. Who does Elisha find in prison?

3. How are the conditions of the jail described to Elisha?

4. How does Elisha feel about his quest to seek a reasoned certainty that would explain everything, including faith?

5. What happens to Elisha's grave?

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