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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Volkmar, the eighth Count of Gretz, thinks about what went right and what went wrong during the Crusades, he concludes that _____.
(a) The French should have been eliminated.
(b) The Turks should have been eliminated.
(c) Children should not have been killed.
(d) The Crusaders should have killed fewer people.

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

3. When the Gottesmans and other Jews arrive at Safed and prepare to defend the city from being turned over to Arab control, which child is among those who greet them?
(a) Ilan Eliav.
(b) Jacob Itzik.
(c) Vered Bar-El.
(d) Netanel Hacohen.

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

5. When Paul Zodman flies to the dig from Chicago in the last chapter, what surprise announcement does he make?
(a) He's assigning everyone to a new dig.
(b) He's run out of money for the dig.
(c) He's planning to marry Vered Bar-El.
(d) He's misplaced the infamous "Candlestick of Death."

6. After Christianity is declared the religion of the empire, what does Rome want to build in Makor?
(a) Castle.
(b) Cathedral.
(c) Basilica.
(d) Monastary.

7. As Volkmar prepares for a siege, he figures that there is enough food at Ma Coeur to feed all the farmers for at least how long?
(a) Two years.
(b) Eight weeks.
(c) Three months.
(d) Five years.

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

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

10. In 1947, the United Nations proposes dividing Palestine into two independent states and making Jerusalem what?
(a) Half Palestinian, half Jewish.
(b) A part of Jordan.
(c) A part of Egypt.
(d) An independent, international city.

11. Fighting on the side of the Prophet Muhammad, Abd Umar works diligently to spread Islam across Byzantine regions although he _____.
(a) Has a Jewish aunt and a Christian grandfather.
(b) Was born a Jew.
(c) Doesn't hate Christians or Jews.
(d) Was born a Christian.

12. Abd Umar believes that the Jews discovered God, that God sent Jesus Christ as a prophet, and that God sent Muhammad as the next prophet, making Islam what?
(a) A compilation of all world religions put together.
(b) A common sense approach to daily life.
(c) A continuation of the religions started by Jews and Christians.
(d) The only religion that tolerates others.

13. After Cullinane tells Eliav that he plans to marry Vered Bar-El, what does Eliav say?
(a) Americans are so rude.
(b) A date for the wedding of Bar-El and Eliav has already been set.
(c) Vered finds Cullinane repulsive.
(d) Vered will never marry a non-Jew.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Safed is a booming manufacturing city and major trading center by the time Rabbis Zaki and Eliezer and Dr. Abulafia arrive. These men help turn Safed into what else?

2. In exchange for water in the Jewish settlements, the leader of Tubariyeh is trying to get baksheesh, which is what?

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

4. Shmuel Hacohen is a Jewish immigrant who ends up in Tubariyeh from where?

5. What is Father Vilspronck's role in the book's final chapter?

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