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

2. What job does Gomer's son hold in Makor?
(a) Supervising Jeremoth's olive grove.
(b) Making bricks.
(c) Managing Jeremoth's library.
(d) Fixing tents.

3. The governor of Makor gives sanctuary to Gershom, who is a what?
(a) Dethroned king.
(b) Magician.
(c) Drug dealer.
(d) Murderer.

4. When Islam arrives at Makor, the population there consists primarily of Christians, Jews, and _____.
(a) Shintos.
(b) Pagans.
(c) Hindus.
(d) Sikhs.

5. Even though Yohanan wants his son Menahem to be a Jew, what do the rabbis tell him?
(a) He can't be.
(b) He can choose to join the faith when he's twenty-one.
(c) One day he may be.
(d) He can choose to join the faith only after he spends twenty years studying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Urbaal buy a statue of the goddess Astarte?

2. When Faraj ibn Ahmed Tabari meets with his superior to talk about the constitution, what does he say about reformers?

3. Zadok and his people follow El-Shadai's orders and cross the Jordan into the land of:

4. Who does Gomer's son eventually marry?

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

(see the answer key)

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