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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. In 2200 B.C.E., about seven thousand years after Makor is first inhabited, what types of dwellings are found there?
(a) Canvas tents.
(b) Mud-brick houses.
(c) Stone palaces.
(d) Underground chambers.

2. In order for a Byzantine basilica to be built in Makor, what must be destroyed to make room for it?
(a) The library.
(b) Part of the irrigation system.
(c) Part of the wall that surrounds Makor.
(d) Thirty Jewish buildings.

3. The voice of the Hebrew god El-Shaddai tells the old man Zadok to _____.
(a) Leave the desert.
(b) Go to the forest.
(c) Befriend his enemies.
(d) Forgive his brother.

4. After sailing for Salonica in 1541 before the Inquisition reaches Italy, where do Rabbi Zaki and his family ultimately settle?
(a) Tarsus.
(b) Antioch.
(c) Safed.
(d) Akka.

5. When Menahem converts to Christianity, who else converts with him?
(a) His beloved Jael.
(b) Rabbi Asher.
(c) His father Yohanan.
(d) The local tax collector.

Short Answer Questions

1. When John Cullinane discusses the case of the widow Zipporah Zederbaum with Ilan Eliav, Ilan complains that John doesn't know _____.

2. Why does Urbaal buy a statue of the goddess Astarte?

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

4. Why does Menalaus have his circumcision reversed?

5. Why does Volkmar stop to talk with a group of Jews in Acre?

(see the answer key)

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