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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. Near the end of Chapter 15, what does the Mossad build in the desert?

2. How do the Israelis monitor Libyan activities in Chapter 16?

3. Which of the following is not a city that Carlos attacks in Chapter 10?

4. In the 1975 intelligence meeting, what type of research is placed as a high priority?

5. In Chapter 10, where does Mossad accidently kill a waiter while trying to assassinate Salameh?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Israel's operations in the United States revealed in the beginning of Chapter 14?

2. Why is Yassar Arafat unpopular with fundamentalists?

3. Why do Magid and his brother begin providing info to a katsas in Chapter 12?

4. How does Mossad thwart Arafat's arms deal in Chapter 13?

5. What arrangement do Denmark and Israel have in the mid-1970's?

6. How is the resort at the beginning of Chapter 15 not what it seems?

7. How does Arafat react to the power struggles in the Palestinian community in Chapter 13?

8. Why are the Ethiopian Jews particularly endangered in Chapter 15?

9. How does the Mossad find its contact in Chapter 16?

10. What is Moukharbel's connection to Mossad in Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The chapters of By Way of Deception often begin by presenting an operation from the point-of-view of an outsider. In this way, the reader is incrementally made aware of the true motivation behind seemingly innocuous actions. Write a three-part essay about this chapter structure.

Part 1) How is the reader introduced to the character of Halim in the Prologue? Discuss the process by which the Mossad makes contact with him. How does the reader become aware of which character is a katsas and what the Mossad wants with Halim? How does the reader exist in the same narrative space as Halim does?

Part 2) How is the reader introduced to the character of Magid in Chapter 12, and how are we made aware of his intelligence importance? Chart the journey this character takes during the chapter. Does he ever realize that he has been working for the Mossad? If not, how does the reader become aware?

Part 3) In Chapter 15, how does Ostrofsky initially present the resort that is used to shelter Ethiopian Jews. What is the initial picture painted of the resort? How does this understanding of it cloak its true purposes? Discuss the process by which the author reveals the true nature of the resort.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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