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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Tell, pp. 1019-1088.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. During the time of Gomer, Makor is _____.
(a) A holding place for prisoners.
(b) Only a shadow of its past glory.
(c) Extravagantly wealthy and luxurious.
(d) A cultural center known far and wide.

4. After Yahweh tells Gomer to take her son to Jerusalem, what does the widow suspect?
(a) That she and her son are being tricked.
(b) That Jeremoth is behind this.
(c) That she's going crazy.
(d) That her son has been chosen for some task.

5. When the ten Jews in Rabbi Itzik's congregation decide to stay in Safed and tell the other Jews to leave, what is their response?
(a) They laugh and ask the rabbi for some food.
(b) They kick the rabbi and his congregation out of town.
(c) They refuse to go and stay to fight.
(d) They go just outside the city walls and hide.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the earliest days of Makor, who develops the practice of growing wheat ?

2. What happens when Abd Umar and his army reach Makor?

3. The rabbis of Makor believe that even if the Jewish people have no nation, they will always be bound by what?

4. After Christianity is declared the religion of the empire, what does Rome want to build in Makor?

5. Who opposes the plans Isidore Gottesman and other Jews are making for Safed?

(see the answer key)

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