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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 the international communications discussed most prominently in Chapter 7?

2. What is Israel's interest in the Saudis in Chapter 6?

3. Where are most of the fake businesses of the Mossad set up?

4. What does Ostrovsky pose as in the second half of Chapter 5?

5. What do white agents not know?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Ostrovsky's first assignments go in Chapter 5?

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

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

5. What is the Mossad line on the Kennedy assassination?

6. What is the Komemiute?

7. Describe the Danish operation in Chapter 6.

8. What is new about the Academy in the beginning of Chapter 7?

9. What does Ostrovsky learn about foreign surveillance in Chapter 3?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the nation of Israel as a promise. What was Israel before it was founded after the Second World War? What was the root of Zionism in the twentieth century? Discuss how a homeland remained a dream for the Jews since the Diaspora and how Israel maintains citizenship laws that maintain the promise of a Jewish homeland. How do Mossad's missions to rescue Jews outside of Israel speak to the honesty of this promise?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The publication of By Way of Deception was deeply controversial. Write an essay analyzing the motivation Victor Ostrovsky has in revealing his experiences with Mossad. How does his final analysis explain his disillusionment with the agency? What do you think he expects to accomplish be revealing its operations? In the end, does By Way of Deception seem like a self-aggrandizing action? Why or why not?

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