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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. When do the Crusades end?
(a) 1289 C.E.
(b) 1341 C.E.
(c) 1403 C.E.
(d) 1105 C.E.

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

3. At the end of the book, Tabari explains that he has never left the area because _____.
(a) The land is special to both Arabs and Jews.
(b) An ancient curse prevents him from leaving.
(c) His dead wife is buried on the hilltop, and he wants to be near her.
(d) The food here is the best anywhere.

4. Accompanied by the trader Muzaffar, what does Volkmar do on the trip he starts in April?
(a) Collects numerous books from nomadic sages.
(b) Stops at seven locations to negotiate with governors.
(c) Buys wares to sell at the new trading post.
(d) Points out sights to his son and explains their history.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Beirut, what happens to Faraj ibn Ahmed Tabari's brother-in-law, who is a constitution reformer?

2. When Paul Zodman flies to the dig from Chicago in the last chapter, what surprise announcement does he make?

3. In 1947, the United Nations proposes dividing Palestine into two independent states and making Jerusalem what?

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

5. When is Christianity declared the religion of the empire that Makor is a part of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Abd Umar and his background.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Explain what the rabbis determine in "The Law" about what really bonds the Jewish people.

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

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