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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. What is Itsik's complaint about Victor regarding the Tel Aviv hotel job?

2. What does the Komemiute coordinate?

3. What building does Victor break into in Chapter 8?

4. What is not studied by the cadets in Chapter 3?

5. How many Black September are said to be killed by Mossad in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Victor's last cadet exercise?

2. Describe the awkward interaction between Jerry S. and Victor in Chapter 8?

3. What does Ostrovsky learn about Sri Lanka while facilitating companies in Chapter 6?

4. Besides recruitment, what skills do cadets learn in Chapter 4?

5. What are the consequences of the botched Cypress assignment in Chapter 8?

6. What training do the cadets receive in Chapter 3?

7. Describe the web of recruits related in Chapter 4.

8. What does Halim eventually provide the Mossad in the Prologue?

9. What is the Komemiute?

10. How is the Cypress mission botched in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the training Ostrovsky undergoes in the first part of the book. Each part should pertain to a repeated subject of the education. What do the instructors use as examples? What is the value of this skill set to the objectives of a Mossad agent? Discuss how Victor responds to this training? Does he think that the ends justify the means learned in his education as a Mossad officer?

Part 1) Fake companies.

Part 2) Recruiting

Part 3) Assassination

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about By Way of Deception as a chronicle of one man's journey to moral understanding. Discuss Victor's life prior to his recruitment to Mossad. Why does he decide to join the agency? How does his training begin a process of disillusionment? Explore his years in the service. Is he largely successful? Why, in the end, does Ostrovsky leave the agency? How does he feel about Mossad after the fact?

Essay Topic 3

In By Way of Deception, Victor Ostrovsky often shows the connection between the actions of Mossad and famous historical event: the bombing of the American hotel in Beirut or the 1972 Olympics for example. Write an essay about one such occurrence. How does Mossad activity impact the international climate lead toward or away from the event? What is the connection between Israeli policy and this event? Does Ostrovsky reveal a hidden component to this event?

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