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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After looking at newspaper clippings of Vered Bar-El, Cullinane decides that he will do what?
(a) Catch the next plane back to America.
(b) Get back to work and forget about her.
(c) Confront Ilan Eliav and state his love for Vered.
(d) Propose as soon as she gets off the plane.

2. When Menahem wants to marry Jael, daughter of Rabbi Asher, what does the rabbi do?
(a) Gives Menahem and Jael his blessing.
(b) Makes arrangements for Jael to marry someone else.
(c) Sends Jael to live with her aunt in Jerusalem.
(d) Runs Menahem out of town.

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

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

5. In 1500, Safed is a sleepy town of a thousand inhabitants. Within ninety years, it becomes a bustling city of approximately how many inhabitants?
(a) Three thousand.
(b) Sixty thousand.
(c) Fifteen thousand.
(d) Two hundred thousand.

6. Of the four members of Rabbi Eliezer's family, which ones survive and find refuge?
(a) The rabbi and his son.
(b) The rabbi and his daughter.
(c) Rabbi Eliezer and his wife Leah.
(d) Only Rabbi Eliezer.

7. 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.

8. Why does Rabbi Itzik want the British to stay in Safed?
(a) So the Dutch won't gain too much power.
(b) He likes the British way of life.
(c) So Jews and Arabs continue to get along.
(d) So the British can draw up treaties with the Greeks.

9. When the city of Safed is about to be transferred over to Arab control, what do the Arabs want?
(a) A new mayor.
(b) Additional time to work out all the details.
(c) The Jews to leave.
(d) Additional homes built to accomodate more families.

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

11. What do the rabbis of Makor do with the Law, the directives delivered by God?
(a) Enforce them.
(b) Write them down on library walls.
(c) Change them.
(d) Study and interpret them.

12. Who opposes the plans Isidore Gottesman and other Jews are making for Safed?
(a) Ilan Eliav.
(b) Netanel Hacohen.
(c) Vered Bar-El.
(d) Rabbi Itzik.

13. Shmuel Hacohen is a Jewish immigrant who ends up in Tubariyeh from where?
(a) Germany.
(b) Spain.
(c) Italy.
(d) Russia.

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

15. In Beirut, what happens to Faraj ibn Ahmed Tabari's brother-in-law, who is a constitution reformer?
(a) He is kidnapped by Bedouins and sold into slavery.
(b) He is accused of conspiracy and hanged.
(c) He is given asylum and is free to roam the city.
(d) He is promoted to the position of captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Safed, who ends up marrying Sarah, Rabbi Zaki's eldest daughter?

2. What type of work do Rabbi Zaki's wife and daughters do in Safed?

3. After Christianity is declared the religion of the empire, what does Rome want to build in Makor?

4. 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?

5. Abd Umar believes that in not accepting Muhammad, Christians and Jews are what?

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