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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Twilight of an Empire, pg. 873 - 927.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By Zadok's era, copper tools have been in use for how long?
(a) Five hundred years.
(b) Twelve thousand years.
(c) Three thousand years.
(d) Sixty years.

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

3. Why does Rabbi Eliezer, a German Jew in Gretz, decide to leave Germany with his wife Leah and their family?
(a) He is publicly humiliated and his synagogue is torn down.
(b) A cousin in Makor urges him to move there.
(c) He is offered a better position in Tunis.
(d) He wants to enjoy the better weather of Spain.

4. After Cullinane gives a preparatory lecture explaining plans and procedures to the staff at the dig before excavations begin, what does he do?
(a) Goes on a date.
(b) Returns to Chicago for a month.
(c) Answers questions.
(d) Faints from heat exhaustion.

5. 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 Nestorians and those who follow Rome.
(b) The Gentiles and the Cossacks.
(c) The Alexandrians and the Turks.
(d) The Astorians and those who follow Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1500, Safed is a sleepy town of a thousand inhabitants. Within ninety years, it becomes a bustling city of approximately how many inhabitants?

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

3. Urbaal believes his statues were stolen by whom?

4. Dr. Vered Bar-El is Israel's top expert in dating what?

5. When Tabari offers Shmuel Hacohen Jewish books, what does Hacohen do?

(see the answer key)

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