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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bee Eater & Of Death and Life, pp. 87-171.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Urbaal buy a statue of the goddess Astarte?
(a) To protect his flock of sheep.
(b) To protect his home and children.
(c) To help his wife be fertile.
(d) To help restore his health.

2. To keep his funding for the dig, Cullinane knows he has to produce what?
(a) Scrolls.
(b) Legends.
(c) Results.
(d) Gold.

3. The early inhabitants of Makor spend less and less time hunting and more time doing what?
(a) Tending fields.
(b) Raising sheep.
(c) Building homes.
(d) Chasing bees.

4. Dr. Vered Bar-El is Israel's top expert in dating what?
(a) Bone fragments.
(b) Soil samples.
(c) Pottery fragments.
(d) Cloth samples.

5. Cullinane and the staff begin digging at Makor hoping to find what, among other things?
(a) Lost city of Atlantis.
(b) Turkish minaret.
(c) Ancient pyramid.
(d) Crusader castle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the early inhabitants of Makor talk about building a dike?

2. In addition to growing wheat, the earliest inhabitants of Makor learn to do what?

3. Why is Urbaal killed?

4. 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?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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