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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. After the Hebrews attack and burn Makor, the surviving Canaanites agree to do what?
(a) Leave immediately.
(b) Accept El-Shaddai.
(c) Farm the land.
(d) Continue to worship Baal.

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

3. When Makor becomes part of the Seleucid Empire, how are the Jews living there encouraged?
(a) The emperor allows the Jews to worship their own god as they wish.
(b) The best, most fertile land of Makor is given to the Jews.
(c) A hundred new homes are built for the Jews.
(d) The emperor appoints fifty Jewish men to prominent leadership positions.

4. During their active resistance against the Romans, Yigal and his group lie down in the path of Romans in order to stop _____.
(a) An important military parade.
(b) The delivery of statues.
(c) An attack against Jerusalem.
(d) The collection of taxes.

5. Who is the supreme deity of the Seleucids?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Krishna.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Urbaal killed?

2. Who is the first person to greet Dr. Cullinane when he arrives in Israel as the book opens?

3. 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?

4. In the earliest days of Makor, the person who breaks the flint in his spear leads whom to a place where the stone is readily available?

5. At the start of Dr. Cullinane's archaeological dig, how much funding has he already procured?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Timon and Shelomith saved?

2. Explain who Gomer and Rimmon are.

3. What happens after King David comes to inspect the water system that Hoopoe built?

4. What are archaeologists hoping to find at Makor?

5. Why do Ur and his son work on building a dike?

6. How do Yigal and his people prevent the Romans from delivering the offending statues?

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

8. Why does Menalaus have surgery to reverse his circumcision?

9. Through the sites John Cullinane sees as he arrives in Israel by ship, describe some of the multicultural and multi-faith aspects of the area.

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

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