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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. During their active resistance against the Romans, Yigal and his group lie down in the path of Romans in order to stop _____.
(a) An important military parade.
(b) The delivery of statues.
(c) An attack against Jerusalem.
(d) The collection of taxes.

2. Which god does Hoopoe primarily worship?
(a) Yahweh.
(b) El-Shaddai.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Baal.

3. Why does Kerith express deep discontent to General Amram?
(a) She wants to be free.
(b) She wants to return to Jerusalem.
(c) He disagrees with the rulers of Makor.
(d) He disagrees with the rulers of Jerusalem.

4. When Hoopoe is finished with his engineering projects, he lives out his days in Makor doing what?
(a) Tending his sheep.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Raising his children.

5. Why does Rabbi Eliezer, a German Jew in Gretz, decide to leave Germany with his wife Leah and their family?
(a) A cousin in Makor urges him to move there.
(b) He is publicly humiliated and his synagogue is torn down.
(c) He is offered a better position in Tunis.
(d) He wants to enjoy the better weather of Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1500, Safed is a sleepy town of a thousand inhabitants. Within ninety years, it becomes a bustling city of approximately how many inhabitants?

2. When the general Vespasian is sent to crush the Jews of Makor, what does the now much older Yigal say his people must do?

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

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

5. In Safed, who ends up marrying Sarah, Rabbi Zaki's eldest daughter?

(see the answer key)

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