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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the earliest date that Makor hears about Jesus Christ and his crucifixion?
(a) 172 C.E.
(b) 59 C.E.
(c) 31 C.E.
(d) 238 C.E.

2. What do Volkmar and the Mameluke captain hope?
(a) That Muzaffar will not betray Volkmar.
(b) That the Mongols will agree to begin trading in their region.
(c) That Volkmar's son will grow to be a just leader.
(d) That the current truce will last the full ten years.

3. Accompanied by the trader Muzaffar, what does Volkmar do on the trip he starts in April?
(a) Buys wares to sell at the new trading post.
(b) Collects numerous books from nomadic sages.
(c) Points out sights to his son and explains their history.
(d) Stops at seven locations to negotiate with governors.

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

5. Abd Umar does not advocate violence and strives to capture Makor:
(a) By tricking its religious leaders.
(b) With a thousand spies and infiltrators.
(c) By imprisoning its political leaders.
(d) As peacefully as possible.

6. By the time Islam arrives at Makor, there is a great deal of bickering between several Christian factions, particularly the Egyptians and Byzantines and what other two Christian groups?
(a) The Astorians and those who follow Greece.
(b) The Nestorians and those who follow Rome.
(c) The Gentiles and the Cossacks.
(d) The Alexandrians and the Turks.

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

8. When Faraj Tabari is about to give his superior a gold coin in order to remain in his good graces, he discovers that he has lost the coin. What does he give his superior instead?
(a) Baklava his wife made.
(b) His silver bracelet.
(c) Money he'd received from the Jews.
(d) A book his father had given him.

9. After Rabbi Zaki's wife Rachel dies in Safed, who does he end up marrying?
(a) Analisa, sister of Dr. Abulafia.
(b) Elisheba, daughter of Rabbi Eliezer.
(c) Mariana, daughter of Dr. Abulafia.
(d) Johana, sister of Rabbi Eliezer.

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

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

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

13. What type of work do Rabbi Zaki's wife and daughters do in Safed?
(a) Making crepes.
(b) Picking grapes.
(c) Baking bread.
(d) Spinning thread.

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

15. When Tabari offers Shmuel Hacohen Jewish books, what does Hacohen do?
(a) Demands that the books be returned to their rightful owner.
(b) Asks Tabari to donate the books to a nearby synagogue.
(c) Buys the books.
(d) Declines the books.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After looking at newspaper clippings of Vered Bar-El, Cullinane decides that he will do what?

3. How does Islam arrive at Makor?

4. Why does Rabbi Eliezer, a German Jew in Gretz, decide to leave Germany with his wife Leah and their family?

5. How does the stonecutter Yohanan distract his son Menahem who is treated like an outcast by the other children?

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