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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the early inhabitants of Makor talk about building a dike?
(a) To create a bridge between islands.
(b) To protect their wheat against floods.
(c) To store irrigation water.
(d) To separate their land from their neighbors'.

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

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

4. Why is Simeon against Yigal's plans to oppose the Romans?
(a) He thinks Jews will survive only if they submit to the powerful Romans.
(b) He believes the Romans are right and Yigal is wrong.
(c) He does not want to anger his Roman wife.
(d) He thinks Yigal is a common laborer who knows nothing about politics.

5. Around 37 C.E., why does Yigal, a young Jewish laborer, oppose the Romans?
(a) He is tired of having to make bricks for free.
(b) A Roman soldier slighted his father.
(c) He and other Jews refuse to accept statues of Caligula.
(d) A Roman soldier stole his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. The voice of the Hebrew god El-Shaddai tells the old man Zadok to _____.

2. 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?

3. During their active resistance against the Romans, Yigal and his group lie down in the path of Romans in order to stop _____.

4. After Governor Jeremoth has the walls of Makor rebuilt, what group is able to breach the wall and capture Makor?

5. After meeting with his colleagues as the book opens, Dr. Cullinane drives with them to where?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Timon and Shelomith saved?

2. Why do the priests of Makor have Urbaal killed?

3. What kind of relationship does Zadok have with El-Shaddai?

4. Why do conflicts arise between Zadok's people and Uriel's people?

5. Why does the leader of the Canaanites accept Zadok and his people?

6. Why do Ur and his son work on building a dike?

7. Describe Hoopoe's engineering projects.

8. Explain who Gomer and Rimmon are.

9. Who is Yigal, and how does he become a leader of his people?

10. Describe how Ur and his family live during Makor's earliest days.

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