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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Simeon against Yigal's plans to oppose the Romans?

2. In the chapter "Psalm of the Hoopoe Bird," the time line has moved forward to approximately what year?

3. Under the leader Uriel, Makor is prosperous, having developed a monetary system utilizing what?

4. To keep his funding for the dig, Cullinane knows he has to produce what?

5. After Yahweh tells Gomer to take her son to Jerusalem, what does the widow suspect?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Hoopoe's engineering projects.

2. Who are Urbaal and Timna?

3. How do Yigal and his wife die?

4. What type of relationship do the Roman architect Timon and his Jewish wife Shelomith have?

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

6. Who are Jemail Tabari, Vered Bar-El, and Ilan Eliav, and how are they associated with John Cullinane?

7. How is being the mouthpiece of Yahweh both a blessing and a curse for Gomer?

8. Describe what Makor is like around 2200 B.C.E.

9. What are archaeologists hoping to find at Makor?

10. What is the outcome of the battle between Zadok's people and Uriel's people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the progress Makor experiences and the advances reached from the time of Ur to the time of his descendant, Urbaal. How much time elapses between these two eras? In what ways does the region improve? In what ways is the original society of Ur better off than the more recent one of Urbaal?

Essay Topic 2

Select two characters in The Source whom you consider heroes. Why do they fit this description? What heroic acts did they perform? How did others benefit from their actions? How did they muster the courage to do what they did?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the invasion of Makor by the Arabic raider Abd Umar and the Christian crusader Gunter. Who shows greater mercy and compassion? How does Makor change after each of these invasions?

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