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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. For the Jews, Shabbat is a day of what?
(a) Work.
(b) Celebration.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Food preparation.

2. As the book opens, Dr. John Cullinane arrives where?
(a) Greenland.
(b) Holy Land.
(c) Hollywood.
(d) Bollywood.

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

4. When Antiochus Epiphanes is declared a divine emperor, what is moved into the temple?
(a) The silver crown once worn by the emperor.
(b) A sword the emperor used to kill his primary enemies.
(c) A gigantic head of the emperor.
(d) The baby cradle that had belonged to the infant emperor.

5. When the Crusades end, who inhabits the castle of Ma Coeur?
(a) Lord Gunter of Dudley.
(b) Third Prince of Asturia.
(c) Eighth Count of Gretz.
(d) Duke Rochart of Edinmont.

Short Answer Questions

1. To keep his funding for the dig, Cullinane knows he has to produce what?

2. 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?

3. The Mamelukes take over the Muslim Empire from Damascus. Volkmar requests permission from the Mamelukes to do what?

4. Around 37 C.E., why does Yigal, a young Jewish laborer, oppose the Romans?

5. During the time of the Seleucid Empire around 167 B.C.E., who is the leader of the Jewish community of Makor?

(see the answer key)

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