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

2. 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 Alexandrians and the Turks.
(c) The Gentiles and the Cossacks.
(d) The Nestorians and those who follow Rome.

3. When Eliav reveals that Oxford has offered him a prestigious teaching position, he says that _____.
(a) Vered will decide for him.
(b) It doesn't pay enough.
(c) He'll never leave Israel.
(d) He's considering it.

4. Even though the fifteenth century is the Renaissance era, the Jews continue to be what?
(a) Oppressed.
(b) Given special privileges.
(c) Revered.
(d) Censored.

5. After winning Safed over to the Jewish state, Gottesmann and other Jews go on to fight at Akka and:
(a) Bethlehem.
(b) Nazareth.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Tiberias.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Podi, Italy, what does Rabbi Zaki tell his wife?

2. When do the Crusades end?

3. After Rabbi Zaki's wife Rachel dies in Safed, who does he end up marrying?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the Jews defend Safed in 1948?

2. Who is Muzaffar, and how is he associated with Count Volkmar the Eighth?

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

4. Why does Makor fall so easily into Abd Umar's hands?

5. In "The Law," who is Menahem, and why is he not accepted into the Jewish faith?

6. What happens in Podi, Italy after Rabbi Zaki and his family leave by ship in 1541?

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

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

9. In "The Law," why does Menahem become Christian?

10. How does the author show both the desire for peace and the volatility of Makor and its surroundings in the chapter "The Fires of Ma Coeur"?

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