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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John refuses to be ______________ when he is executed.
(a) Tied up
(b) Still
(c) Alone
(d) Blindfolded

2. What was the profession of the German resistance fighter from #163 that Elisha met?
(a) Writer
(b) Sculptor
(c) Lawyer
(d) Surgeon

3. What is John Dawson staring at when Elisha enters his room to meet him?
(a) The pillow
(b) TV
(c) Ceiling
(d) The window

4. The tattered fragment of darkness has a face, Elisha sees, and that face is ___________.
(a) His father's
(b) John's
(c) His rabbi's
(d) His own

5. What is NOT one of the things that John Dawson asks Elisha to bring him?
(a) Cigarette
(b) Pencil
(c) Water
(d) Paper

6. What does the beggar tell Elisha as Elisha walks around asking questions of everyone?
(a) This is a night of mystery
(b) This is a night to remember
(c) This is a night of darkness
(d) This is a night of many faces

7. "In a way, we are the ones to _________ John Dawson. Because you can't do it without us. Now, do you see?"
(a) Execute
(b) Martyr
(c) Save
(d) Believe

8. What does his mother murmur to him when Elisha is standing in the room, asking questions of the people surrounding him?
(a) You disappoint me
(b) You killer
(c) My son
(d) Poor little boy, poor little boy

9. Elisha comments that Dawson's hands are the hands of a _______________.
(a) Gentleman
(b) Laborer
(c) Surgeon
(d) Baker

10. Gad owes his life to three ____________ who were supposed to be killed in a specific way as directed by the Old Man.
(a) Spies
(b) Rabbis
(c) Englishmen
(d) Mystics

11. Who is no longer yawning when Elisha goes upstairs after the execution?
(a) Joab
(b) Ilana
(c) Gad
(d) Gideon

12. Dawson asks for Elisha's age and then tells him that is is ____________ for him.
(a) Excited
(b) Sorry
(c) Nervous
(d) Happy

13. _____________ is praying for the repose of the dead when Elisha comes upstairs.
(a) Ilana
(b) Gad
(c) Gideon
(d) Joab

14. What does Gad reply when Elisha asks what he would have done if the men hadn't made a choice?
(a) I would have drawn straws
(b) I'd have killed myself instead
(c) I would have made them kill each other
(d) I would have shot them all

15. John is sad to think that Elisha _____________ him, but it's not true.
(a) Pities
(b) Loves
(c) Likes
(d) Hates

Short Answer Questions

1. Elisha wants to ____________ Dawson, otherwise he's killing a man for no reason at all.

2. Who has not eaten all day because he is upset about what is going to happen to John Dawson?

3. What are the positions of the people in the group of men that Gad has to select from?

4. What does Gideon report back about the state of health of John Dawson?

5. When Elisha begs the boy for answers, what does the boy reply?

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