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

2. In the last chapter, Cullinane is surprised to discover that Ilan Eliav has been offered what?
(a) A teaching position at Harvard.
(b) A cabinet post.
(c) A job at another dig.
(d) A job on a cruise ship.

3. Even though Yohanan wants his son Menahem to be a Jew, what do the rabbis tell him?
(a) He can choose to join the faith only after he spends twenty years studying.
(b) He can choose to join the faith when he's twenty-one.
(c) He can't be.
(d) One day he may be.

4. When John Cullinane discusses the case of the widow Zipporah Zederbaum with Ilan Eliav, Ilan complains that John doesn't know _____.
(a) Hiring protocols.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Manners.
(d) Women.

5. How does Islam arrive at Makor?
(a) Through Arab slaves.
(b) Through Arab language teachers.
(c) Through Arab squadrons of raiders.
(d) Through Arab peace ambassadors.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 2200 B.C.E., about seven thousand years after Makor is first inhabited, what types of dwellings are found there?

2. At the end of World War II, Isidore Gottesman marries Ilana and settles where?

3. After Meshab becomes a free man, who gives orders to have him killed?

4. Leah, who is Zadok's daughter, wants to marry whom?

5. What is Father Vilspronck's role in the book's final chapter?

(see the answer key)

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