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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. Abd Umar does not advocate violence and strives to capture Makor:
2. Safed is a booming manufacturing city and major trading center by the time Rabbis Zaki and Eliezer and Dr. Abulafia arrive. These men help turn Safed into what else?
3. In order for a Byzantine basilica to be built in Makor, what must be destroyed to make room for it?
4. In governing the people of Tubariyeh in the 1880s, the ruler of this city is used to doing what?
5. What gift is the young son of Volkmar, the eighth Count of Gretz, given at Saphet?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the shoemaker Rabbi Zaki feel that he, his wife, and their family must leave their city of Podi, Italy?
2. Summarize the state of Makor when Christianity prevails in the region around 313 C.E.
3. Why does Hacohen purchase Jewish books from Tabari?
4. In "The Law," why does Menahem become Christian?
5. Where are Vered Bar-El and John Cullinane as the chapter "The Tell" opens?
6. Why does Dr. Abulafia flee Spain during the Inquisition?
7. In the chapter "The Tell," what does Cullinane realize about Bar-El as he looks at pictures of her from newspaper clippings?
8. Who is Shmuel Hacohen, and what does he want from Tabari?
9. What happens in Podi, Italy after Rabbi Zaki and his family leave by ship in 1541?
10. In 1948, what does Isidore Gottesmann plan to do after the British leave Palestine?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Summarize what happens to Palestine in 1948 after the United Nations tries to divide the region into two independent states, one Jewish and one Palestinian Arab. What conflicts arise? How do these conflicts continue in one form or another today?
Essay Topic 2
One of the major themes in The Source is survival. By discussing the resilience of Makor through the ages and the survival of the descendants of the Family of Ur, explain how the author develops the theme of survival.
Essay Topic 3
Explain how the existence of different gods, including Baal and Yahweh, leads to problems and ultimately wars among peoples in Makor through various eras. Personalize this conflict through the stories of the engineer Hoopoe and the prophet Gomer. How are people they know and love hurt by the conflicts that arise between different religions based on different gods?
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