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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In 2200 B.C.E., Makor is ruled by whom?
(a) Emperor.
(b) Empress.
(c) King.
(d) Queen.

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

4. By the year 605 B.C.E., in what condition is Hoopoe's wall found?
(a) Rebuilt.
(b) Expanded.
(c) Gone without a trace.
(d) Crumbling.

5. When the men of Makor return home after fighting with an army that is ultimately defeated, Gomer's son is _____.
(a) Carried in on a stretcher.
(b) Now a captured slave.
(c) Not among them.
(d) Walking among the survivors.

6. Gomer's son is forced to serve in the army of the _____.
(a) Caananites.
(b) Babylonians.
(c) Egyptians.
(d) Hebrews.

7. In the midst of writing about Makor's earliest inhabitants, the author jumps forward to the present. What does he say Cullinane is doing while Vered is in Chicago?
(a) Reprimanding workers who are leaking information to the press.
(b) Putting together a progress report on the first year of the dig.
(c) Making plans to dig a dozen more trenches.
(d) Talking with sponsors to procure more funds.

8. Which god does Hoopoe primarily worship?
(a) Yahweh.
(b) Baal.
(c) El-Shaddai.
(d) Buddha.

9. Why is Urbaal killed?
(a) He killed a man.
(b) So that his house could be used by the priests.
(c) So that his wife could marry another.
(d) He kidnapped the king's daughter.

10. As Cullinane starts working with his colleagues on the dig at Makor, he notes that everyone gets along so well and there is no animosity between who?
(a) Archaeologists and reporters.
(b) Scientists and laborers.
(c) Americans and Britons.
(d) Arabs and Jews.

11. In "The Old Man And His God," the author paints a picture of Makor during what time period?
(a) 1019 C.E.
(b) 42 C.E.
(c) 312 B.C.E.
(d) 1419 B.C.E.

12. In 2200 B.C.E., how do the Makor villagers protect themselves?
(a) With a wall around their village.
(b) With a mote around their village.
(c) By hiring neighboring warriors to protect them.
(d) By training everyone to use spears.

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

14. In the first chapter, the archaeologists are sure they've found the castle they're looking for in _____.
(a) Row 2.
(b) Row 1.
(c) Trench A.
(d) Trench B.

15. 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?
(a) Ur and his son.
(b) Thurton and his wife.
(c) Thor and his daughter.
(d) Urbaal and his father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the first person to greet Dr. Cullinane when he arrives in Israel as the book opens?

3. Dr. Vered Bar-El is Israel's top expert in dating what?

4. The engineer Hoopoe is named after what?

5. As the book opens, Dr. John Cullinane arrives where?

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