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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Saintly Men of Safed, pp. 763-869.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Meshab work for Hoopoe on his major engineering project?
(a) Three years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Twelve years.
(d) Fort y years.

2. What type of work do Rabbi Zaki's wife and daughters do in Safed?
(a) Picking grapes.
(b) Baking bread.
(c) Making crepes.
(d) Spinning thread.

3. Hoopoe tries to get permission from the governor of Makor to build what?
(a) Five-story temple.
(b) Twenty-room mansion.
(c) Water system.
(d) Spiraling tower.

4. Who is Kerith?
(a) General from Makor.
(b) Hoopoe's slave.
(c) Hoopoe's wife.
(d) General from Jerusalem.

5. What is the outcome of the meeting that Petronius holds with Jewish leaders in Galilee?
(a) The Jews refuse to be taxed.
(b) Petronius refuses to lift the ban on circumcisions.
(c) The Jews refuse to accept the statues.
(d) Petronius refuses to improve working conditions for the Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Yigal in the year 67 C.E.?

2. In the chapter "Psalm of the Hoopoe Bird," the time line has moved forward to approximately what year?

3. Why does Rabbi Eliezer, a German Jew in Gretz, decide to leave Germany with his wife Leah and their family?

4. When Hoopoe is finished with his engineering projects, he lives out his days in Makor doing what?

5. Where do Yigal and his group go to in order to protest against the Romans to Petronius?

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