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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 meeting daily with Ben-Gurion, what compromise does Gideon reach?
(a) To pay a settlement to the Jews.
(b) To move the women and children away.
(c) To split the conquered land in half.
(d) To bomb only every other day.

2. What does Ibrahim say will happen to Ishmael when he catches him visiting the kibbutz?
(a) He will take him out of school.
(b) He will sell him.
(c) He will send him back to his mother.
(d) He will kill him.

3. Why do the Irgun and Haganah retaliate in Jerusalem?
(a) Their tanks were stolen.
(b) Their buildings were set on fire.
(c) Their women were taken.
(d) They were bombed.

4. What number wife is Hagar for Ibrahim?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) They aren't married.

5. Why does the Arab well not have any water in it?
(a) Ibrahim broke it.
(b) It has been a very dry year.
(c) Kabir sold the rights to water.
(d) The well was filled with cement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Plan D?

2. When Ibrahim and Gideon meet in Part 2, Chapter 11, how long has it been since they last met?

3. Who arrests Gideon in 1946?

4. What group does Mr. Salmi belong to?

5. What was the retaliation for Deir Yassin following the Irgun attack?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ibrahim have a feast for Kabir when he arrived in Tabah?

2. What role does Fawzi Kabir play in displacing Arabs from Palestine?

3. What advice does Brompton give regarding Plan D?

4. What is Operation Nachshon?

5. How do the Mufti increase Arab violence toward Jews?

6. What happens to Ramiza's first born son?

7. What do the Jews do to prepare their land for farming?

8. What surprises the Arabs when they attack the Jews for the first time?

9. What happens when Ibrahim goes to the bank to withdraw money to pay for the boat he needs to go to Gaza?

10. When Gideon and Foote meet in a Jerusalem restaurant to discuss the events in Tabah that worry them, what do they focus on?

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