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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Twilight of an Empire, pg. 873 - 927.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under the leader Uriel, Makor is prosperous, having developed a monetary system utilizing what?
(a) Silver and gold.
(b) Feathers and leaves.
(c) Rubies and pearls.
(d) Rocks and seashells.

2. Baal, one of the gods of the Canaanites, evolved from whom?
(a) Biawy.
(b) Baally.
(c) Urbaal.
(d) Ur.

3. 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) A hunter.
(b) Her mother.
(c) A bee chaser.
(d) Her brother.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The voice of the Hebrew god El-Shaddai tells the old man Zadok to _____.

2. Why does Volkmar stop to talk with a group of Jews in Acre?

3. Why can't Volkmar accept the terms presented by the Mameluke leaders upon their arrival to Makor?

4. What does El-Shaddai tell Zadok about other gods?

5. Shmuel Hacohen is a Jewish immigrant who ends up in Tubariyeh from where?

(see the answer key)

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