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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do the Crusades end?
(a) 1341 C.E.
(b) 1105 C.E.
(c) 1403 C.E.
(d) 1289 C.E.

2. When Menahem converts to Christianity, what name does he adopt?
(a) Mark.
(b) Michael.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Mitchell.

3. How does the stonecutter Yohanan distract his son Menahem who is treated like an outcast by the other children?
(a) Teaches him how to cook.
(b) Takes him on rock hunting trips to the mountains.
(c) Sings him songs about great leaders.
(d) Tells him stories of faraway lands.

4. When is Christianity declared the religion of the empire that Makor is a part of?
(a) 313 C.E.
(b) 89 C.E.
(c) 142 C.E.
(d) 227 C.E.

5. When Faraj ibn Ahmed Tabari travels to Akka by caravan, who does he encounter?
(a) One of the men on Hacohen's list.
(b) Three orphans from nearby Makor.
(c) His long lost brother-in-law.
(d) Two widows lost in the desert.

6. Isidore Gottesman and other Jews prepare to go to Safed to do what?
(a) Defend the city for the Jewish state.
(b) Evict the Dutch.
(c) Evict the British.
(d) Speak with the mayor in hopes of avoiding a conflict.

7. When Islam arrives at Makor, the population there consists primarily of Christians, Jews, and _____.
(a) Pagans.
(b) Hindus.
(c) Sikhs.
(d) Shintos.

8. When Eliav reveals that Oxford has offered him a prestigious teaching position, he says that _____.
(a) He'll never leave Israel.
(b) It doesn't pay enough.
(c) Vered will decide for him.
(d) He's considering it.

9. In Podi, Italy, what does Rabbi Zaki tell his wife?
(a) They will have to leave.
(b) They are not allowed to have any more children.
(c) They have been given fifty acres of land.
(d) They must send her brother home.

10. What kind of place is Tubariyeh?
(a) Very cold at an elevation of ten thousand feet above sea level.
(b) Moderate and at sea level.
(c) Very hot and located at nearly seven hundred feet below sea level.
(d) Moderate even though it's eight thousand feet above sea level.

11. The Mamelukes take over the Muslim Empire from Damascus. Volkmar requests permission from the Mamelukes to do what?
(a) Negotiate a treaty with their leader.
(b) Travel with his son through the empire.
(c) Build a library in their capital city.
(d) Establish a trading post near Damascus.

12. By the time Islam arrives at Makor, what major landmark has been there for three hundred years?
(a) Cathedral of Saint Michael.
(b) Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalene.
(c) Temple of the Olive Groves.
(d) Library of the Wisdom of Ages.

13. When does intense fighting between Arabs and Jews begin in Safed?
(a) May 6, 1948.
(b) December 12, 1947.
(c) February 3, 1947.
(d) August 19, 1948.

14. In the region of Palestine in the 1940s, which ruling group is preparing to leave the area?
(a) Dutch.
(b) Greek.
(c) British.
(d) Turkish.

15. When does Islam arrive in Makor?
(a) 219 C.E.
(b) 803 C.E.
(c) 480 C.E.
(d) 635 C.E.

Short Answer Questions

1. As John Cullinane looks at newspaper clippings with photos of Vered Bar-El, what does he realize?

2. Shmuel Hacohen seeks help from the leader of Tubariyeh to do what?

3. After sailing for Salonica in 1541 before the Inquisition reaches Italy, where do Rabbi Zaki and his family ultimately settle?

4. What gift is the young son of Volkmar, the eighth Count of Gretz, given at Saphet?

5. When Menahem wants to marry Jael, daughter of Rabbi Asher, what does the rabbi do?

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