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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 Jumbo?

2. In Chapter 4, the cadets learn how to handle what for recruits?

3. What do the cadets spend a year doing in Chapter 6?

4. According to the Mossad authorities in Chapter 7, why did the Mafia kill John F. Kennedy?

5. Where is Victor in Chapter 8 when he is blamed for his mission's failure?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the recruits lives change in Chapter 5?

3. What is the Komemiute?

4. How does Ostrovsky join the Mossad?

5. How does the Mossad make first contact with Halim in the Prologue?

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

7. Describe the Danish operation in Chapter 6.

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

9. How is the training divided up in Chapter 2?

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

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

The plot of By Way of Deception is deeply entrenched in the world of the 1970's and 1980's. Israel, in the wake of the 1967 War. Write an essay about the international community during the novel. How is Islamism and Palestinian nationalism on the rise? What is the role of international terrorism? Is America's role in this political climate similar or different from the way it is today? Discuss how Mossad's role is created by the era.

Essay Topic 3

Almost as vivid as Ostrovsky's portraits of Mossad agents and recruits are his portrayals of the international antagonists to Israel's safety. Write an essay about the characters of Carlos and Arafat. How does each man prove to be a treat to Israel? What is his motivation for seeking its destruction? Explore the chapters in which these characters are prominent. How does the Mossad succeed in thwarting each man in his mission against Israel?

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