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

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

3. Why can't Volkmar accept the terms presented by the Mameluke leaders upon their arrival to Makor?
(a) He would lose his status.
(b) It would endanger his wife and son.
(c) It would mean slavery for his people.
(d) He would lose his life.

4. When Shmuel Hacohen is nearly stoned to death, who saves his life?
(a) Kerith El Hopoe.
(b) Mameluke Volkmar.
(c) Faraj ibn Ahmed Tabari.
(d) Ilan Vered.

5. In order for a Byzantine basilica to be built in Makor, what must be destroyed to make room for it?
(a) The library.
(b) Part of the wall that surrounds Makor.
(c) Part of the irrigation system.
(d) Thirty Jewish buildings.

Short Answer Questions

1. While the Gottesmanns and other Jews sing sustaining songs at Safed, what does Rabbi Itzik do?

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

3. When Islam arrives at Makor, the population there consists primarily of Christians, Jews, and _____.

4. By the time Islam arrives at Makor, what major landmark has been there for three hundred years?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Volkmar, the Count of Gretz, end up as governor of Makor?

2. What does Tabari say about the constitution reformers when he meets with his superior?

3. Describe the trip Volkmar the Eighth takes with his young son.

4. In Safed, why does Rabbi Itzik of Vodzh decline to join the Jews who are singing in preparation for battle prior to the city being turned over to Arab rule?

5. In 1948, what does Isidore Gottesmann plan to do after the British leave Palestine?

6. Who is Shmuel Hacohen, and what does he want from Tabari?

7. Why does the shoemaker Rabbi Zaki feel that he, his wife, and their family must leave their city of Podi, Italy?

8. Describe Abd Umar and his background.

9. Summarize the state of Makor when Christianity prevails in the region around 313 C.E.

10. Where are Vered Bar-El and John Cullinane as the chapter "The Tell" opens?

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