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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. Around 37 C.E., why does Yigal, a young Jewish laborer, oppose the Romans?
(a) He and other Jews refuse to accept statues of Caligula.
(b) A Roman soldier slighted his father.
(c) A Roman soldier stole his wife.
(d) He is tired of having to make bricks for free.

2. After Meshab becomes a free man, who gives orders to have him killed?
(a) Queen Isis.
(b) King Solomon.
(c) Queen Bathsheba.
(d) King David.

3. Where do Yigal and his group go to in order to protest against the Romans to Petronius?
(a) Ptolemais.
(b) Athens.
(c) Persia.
(d) Accho.

4. What did the engineer Hoopoe do for Makor?
(a) Built a new defense wall.
(b) Modernized sailboat designs.
(c) Modernized farming techniques.
(d) Built an impenetrable castle.

5. When the general Vespasian is sent to crush the Jews of Makor, what does the now much older Yigal say his people must do?
(a) Submit to Roman rule.
(b) Escape to Jerusalem.
(c) Resist the Romans again.
(d) Assasinate the general.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Podi, Italy, what does Rabbi Zaki tell his wife?

3. Which god does Hoopoe primarily worship?

4. After Roman armies overtake the town of Makor, what happens to its Jewish residents?

5. When Hoopoe needs new iron tools to dig tunnels, he travels to get them from where?

(see the answer key)

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