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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. Why is Simeon against Yigal's plans to oppose the Romans?
(a) He thinks Jews will survive only if they submit to the powerful Romans.
(b) He does not want to anger his Roman wife.
(c) He believes the Romans are right and Yigal is wrong.
(d) He thinks Yigal is a common laborer who knows nothing about politics.

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

3. In 1500, Safed is a sleepy town of a thousand inhabitants. Within ninety years, it becomes a bustling city of approximately how many inhabitants?
(a) Two hundred thousand.
(b) Sixty thousand.
(c) Fifteen thousand.
(d) Three thousand.

4. As Rahab predicted, there is trouble between the Hebrews and the Canaanites, and it stems from what?
(a) Differences in religion.
(b) Differences in language.
(c) Strong dislike between both groups.
(d) Strong jealousy betwen leaders.

5. Returning to the earliest days of Makor, the author writes that someone saves Ur's daughter from a dog about to attack. Who saves her?
(a) A hunter.
(b) Her brother.
(c) A bee chaser.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many daughters does Jeremoth, the governor of Makor, have?

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

3. When the general Vespasian is sent to crush the Jews of Makor, what does the now much older Yigal say his people must do?

4. In "Twilight of an Empire," who is the ruler of Tiberias, a city that is called Tubariyeh in 1880?

5. While Cullinane and his associates work on the excavation site, they live and eat where?

(see the answer key)

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