Ancient Israel Test & Study Guide

Need a proven, detailed assessment for your ancient Israel Unit? Here's a ready-to-use test and study guide that I've given to my students. Have students prepare for the test using the study guide, and you can go over the answers, using your included answer key, to make sure they have the correct information. Since the document will download in Microsoft Word, you can even edit the test and study guide as you see fit. Don't have Word? Open with Google Docs instead.

Included:

- Comprehensive, specific study guide

- Extensive test that includes multiple choice and picture identification questions

- Answer Keys for both the test and the study guide

Topics covered:

- Significant people in the history of ancient Israel and Judaism;

these include (but are not limited to) Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Saul, David, Solomon, and Judah Maccabee

- Important events in the ancient history of ancient Israel and the Jewish people;

these include (but are not limited to) the movement from Mesopotamia to Israel, slavery in Egypt, the ten plagues and the Passover, the Exodus, the events at Mt. Sinai, the Ten Commandments and the Covenant, the split of the kingdoms and the resulting invasion, the Babylonian captivity, the revolt against the Syrian Greeks and the events of the first Chanukah (Hanukah), and the Jewish Revolt and the Diaspora

- How these important events are remembered today in Judaism

- Changes made in Jewish religious practices after the Diaspora

- The life and death of Jesus

- Beliefs of Christians pertaining to the Crucifixion, Resurrection, and the Ascension

- Meaning behind major Christian holidays

- The religious books of Judaism and Christianity

- Vocabulary important to the understanding of the ancient history of ancient Israel and the religions of Judaism and Christianity

Note: the spread of Christianity and the history of the Romans and the Christians is covered in my Ancient Rome Test