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Rabbis of the Mishna

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was the Nasi of Generation 5?
a)
Homer Simpson
b)
Rabban Gamliel
c)
Shimon ben Gamliel
d)
Rabbi Yehuda
2.

Who went to Bavel to teach at a yeshiva?

a)

The yeshiva boys coir

b)

Abba Sicari

c)

Rav

d)

Talia Levinger and Meital Hochstein

3.
What is the book that Rabbi Chiya wrote called?
a)
Breightah
b)
Mechiltah D' Rabbi Chiya
c)
Masachet D' Rabbi Chiya
d)
Toseftah
4.
Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi writes...
a)
Moriah Elizabeth's blog
b)
Green eggs and ham
c)
The Breitot
d)
The Mishna
5.

Who does Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi learn with when we was young?

a)

Rabbi Yosi

b)

Rabbi Yehuda

c)

Rabbi Meir

d)

Rabbi Chiya ben Zakkai

6.

Who took and kept all the Mishna outtakes?

a)

R' Chiya

b)

R' Yehuda

c)

R' Gamliel III

d)

Oscar the grouch

7.
Who was Rabbi Chiya's nephew?
a)
Rav
b)
Devora
c)
Samson
d)
Rabban Gamliel II
8.

What is a braita?

a)

A bunch of toseftot

b)

a rejected Mishna

c)

Rabbi Chia's opinions

d)

a Mishna that made it in

9.

Why did they move to Tzippori?

a)

There was too much Christmas spirit, they got annoyed

b)

Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi needed fresh air because he was sick

c)

It was better for focus

d)

To get away from the Chiyas

10.
Who was the person that took all of the drafts out of the trash?
a)
Rav
b)
Rabban Gamleil Hazaken
c)
Rabbi Eliezer
d)
Rabbi Chiya
11.
How did Herod become king?
a)
He was beloved by everyone; chosen
b)
Killed everyone and took over; tyrant
c)
Inherited the throne; monarch
d)
Never a king; fantasy
12.
What was Hillel's first Av Beit Din named?
a)
Menachem
b)
Shammai
c)
Shimon
d)
Eliezer
13.

Who were the Sicarri?

a)

Brian's BFF

b)

The group of jews who didn't want to fight

c)

3rd person on Taylor swift's ex boyfriend list

d)

Terrorists who stabbed people

14.

How many people don't commit suicide on Masada?

a)

4

b)

7

c)

1

d)

no one committed suicide

15.

What is the Sanhedrin?

a)

supreme Jewish court

b)

court

c)

Christian Temple

d)

a president

16.

How did the Beit Shammi win a bunch of arguments?

a)

they brought swords

b)

they killed Hillel

c)

they convinced people to wright questions only rabbis would know

d)

they detracted Beit Hillel with tickets to Hamilton on Broadway

17.

Who built Masada?

a)

Bar Kochba

b)

Jesus

c)

Herod

d)

Hillel

18.

What did Herod the Bloody do to the Beit Hamikdash?

a)

Threw it away

b)

Renovated it

c)

Moved in

d)

Kept it as one of his hideouts

19.

Who owned the storehouses of grain that were burned down by Sicarii?

a)

Hillel

b)

Rabbi Akiva's father in-law

c)

Rabbi Akiva

d)

Shammai

20.
Why was the Nasi killed in Jewish civil war?
a)
He wanted peace
b)
He wanted to fight
c)
He was on the Romans side
d)
None of the Above
21.

What where Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai's wishes?

a)

save the Gamliel dynasty

b)

heal Rabbi Tzadok

c)

give me Yavne and its rabbis

d)

all of the above

22.

Who always mourned for the Beit HaMikdash?

a)

Avital and Ma'ayan

b)

Rabbi Yehuda

c)

Rabbi Eliezer

d)

Mickey Mouse

23.

Why was R' Eliezer excommunicated?

a)

An argument about a fire place

b)

an argument about R'GII's hair

c)

an argument about when Yom Kipper was

d)

An argument about a stove

24.

How many students of Rabbi Akiva did the Romans kill?

a)

100

b)

103

c)

2,300

d)

24,000

25.

Who's hair magically turned white overnight?

a)

R' GII

b)

R' Elazar ben Azaria

c)

R' Akiva

d)

Santa Claus

26.

What war technique did the Jews use in the Bar Kochba revolt?

a)

guerilla

b)

purat

c)

puosum

d)

armadillo