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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. How does Daniel know that Rosh had him watched during the robbery?

2. Why does Daniel leave Hezron's house suddenly?

3. What warning does Simon give Daniel before leaving him in charge of the shop?

4. What does Daniel think regarding his relationship to Joel?

5. What is Joel's explanation to Daniel for Thacia's strange behavior?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the village men prevent Daniel from yelling curses at the Roman soldiers coming through the town.

2. Joel follows Daniel into the ambush of a caravan. What are they after?

3. What does Leah think after Daniel returns.

4. Why does Simon not join forces with Rosh?

5. Watching Joel and his sister on the side of the mountain, what memories come back to Daniel?

6. When the grandmother is dying, no one will try to enter the house. Why?

7. When Daniel gets restless on the mountain, where does he decide he wants to go?

8. Discuss the symbolism of Daniel hammering flaws out of the hot iron.

9. What trouble does Daniel get into at the well in Capernaum?

10. What in Rosh's behavior gives some indication that he is not the hero Daniel thinks he is?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a paper contrasting the life Daniel has at the mountain cave and the life he enjoys being hidden away in Joel's house.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the real character of Rosh as it is slowly revealed in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Write a description of how poor villagers tend to be the most hospitable and helpful. Use the villagers helping Daniel move Leah to Simon's house and any modern day example you can find.

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