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

2. Returning to the earliest days of Makor, the author writes that someone saves Ur's daughter from a dog about to attack. Who saves her?
(a) Her mother.
(b) A bee chaser.
(c) Her brother.
(d) A hunter.

3. In the earliest days of Makor, the person who breaks the flint in his spear leads whom to a place where the stone is readily available?
(a) Ur and his son.
(b) Thor and his daughter.
(c) Urbaal and his father.
(d) Thurton and his wife.

4. When Hoopoe needs new iron tools to dig tunnels, he travels to get them from where?
(a) Phoenicia.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Babylon.

5. How old is Yigal in the year 67 C.E.?
(a) Eighty-nine.
(b) Fifty-three.
(c) Sixty-seven.
(d) Forty-one.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the midst of writing about Makor's earliest inhabitants, the author jumps forward to the present. What does he say Cullinane is doing while Vered is in Chicago?

2. During their active resistance against the Romans, Yigal and his group lie down in the path of Romans in order to stop _____.

3. The engineer Hoopoe is named after what?

4. According to Cullinane, the earliest people of Makor lived in what?

5. Rabbi Asher has the stonecutter Yohanan finish the interior of what in Makor?

(see the answer key)

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