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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. Where is John Dawson being kept in the two-story building as he is a hostage?
(a) Kitchen
(b) Bedroom
(c) Closet
(d) Cellar

2. _____________ movements in Europe protest in front of British embassies.
(a) Resistance
(b) American
(c) Peace
(d) Freedom

3. The Jews now go out and _______, just like everyone else, to assert their rights to live as men.
(a) Negotiate
(b) Barter
(c) Kill
(d) Stand tall

4. What is the commandment that the Jews have tried to live by, though they have suffered in the process?
(a) Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain
(b) Thou shalt not have no other Gods but me
(c) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor
(d) Thou shalt not kill

5. Gad and David are childhood friends who entered the __________ together.
(a) Temple
(b) Military
(c) Movement
(d) University

Short Answer Questions

1. The house is a convenient choice as the comings and goings of ___________ seems to be reasonable activity.

2. The Movement's objective is to kill the greatest number of __________ possible.

3. The beggar tells Elisha not to be afraid of the dark. Night is ____________ than day.

4. Who freed Elisha from the concentration camps, though he did not take them up on their offer to help?

5. Which side of the English vs. Palestinian conflict has probably had more casualties?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do several masked instructors teach to the new recruits when they arrive in Palestine?

2. What is the subject that Elisha wants to study when he is enrolled at Sorbonne in Paris?

3. What is the lesson that the beggar taught Elisha when he was walking through the dark?

4. What has Elisha done every night since learning the lesson of the beggar as it was taught to him?

5. Describe the city setting at the start of the story when Elisha is standing near a window.

6. What was the decision of the Old Man that Gad relayed to Elisha an hour earlier in the first chapter?

7. How does Elisha rationalize the killing of others in the name of the Movement, even though scripture condemns it?

8. What does Ilana say about the two deaths of the two men who are to be executed?

9. What does the English army do in response to the kidnapping of Captain John Dawson?

10. Why didn't Elisha want to return to his native town where his family used to live?

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