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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. In 1500, Safed is a sleepy town of a thousand inhabitants. Within ninety years, it becomes a bustling city of approximately how many inhabitants?
(a) Sixty thousand.
(b) Two hundred thousand.
(c) Fifteen thousand.
(d) Three thousand.

2. After Roman armies overtake the town of Makor, what happens to its Jewish residents?
(a) The adults are killed but the children are spared.
(b) Most are killed and the rest are taken into slavery.
(c) All are exiled to Jordan.
(d) Most escape into the nearby swamps.

3. In the chapter "Psalm of the Hoopoe Bird," the time line has moved forward to approximately what year?
(a) 123 C.E.
(b) 963 B.C.E.
(c) 7012 B.C.E.
(d) 892 C.E.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The engineer Hoopoe is named after what?

2. Safed is a booming manufacturing city and major trading center by the time Rabbis Zaki and Eliezer and Dr. Abulafia arrive. These men help turn Safed into what else?

3. Of the four members of Rabbi Eliezer's family, which ones survive and find refuge?

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

5. What is the outcome of the meeting that Petronius holds with Jewish leaders in Galilee?

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