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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. While Cullinane and his associates work on the excavation site, they live and eat where?
(a) Luxury hotel.
(b) Budget motel.
(c) Tents.
(d) Kibbutz.

2. In Podi, Italy, what does Rabbi Zaki tell his wife?
(a) They will have to leave.
(b) They are not allowed to have any more children.
(c) They have been given fifty acres of land.
(d) They must send her brother home.

3. During the time of the Seleucid Empire around 167 B.C.E., who is the leader of the Jewish community of Makor?
(a) Nebuchadrezzar.
(b) Jehubabel.
(c) Rimmon.
(d) Ptolemais.

4. As Rahab predicted, there is trouble between the Hebrews and the Canaanites, and it stems from what?
(a) Differences in religion.
(b) Strong dislike between both groups.
(c) Differences in language.
(d) Strong jealousy betwen leaders.

5. What do Volkmar and the Mameluke captain hope?
(a) That Muzaffar will not betray Volkmar.
(b) That the current truce will last the full ten years.
(c) That the Mongols will agree to begin trading in their region.
(d) That Volkmar's son will grow to be a just leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Islam arrive at Makor?

2. Why does Dr. Abulafia leave Spain?

3. As Volkmar, the eighth Count of Gretz, thinks about what went right and what went wrong during the Crusades, he concludes that _____.

4. After Cullinane gives a preparatory lecture explaining plans and procedures to the staff at the dig before excavations begin, what does he do?

5. By the time Islam arrives at Makor, what major landmark has been there for three hundred years?

(see the answer key)

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