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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the women in her mid-twenties that Elisha met while at the work camp in France?
(a) Marienne
(b) Julia
(c) Juliana
(d) Catherine

2. Who urges Elisha to go take the food down to John Dawson?
(a) Ilana
(b) The little boy
(c) Gideon
(d) The Old Man

3. Who beats Elisha to bringing the food down to John Dawson?
(a) Gideon
(b) Gad
(c) Joab
(d) Ilana

4. Ilana looks at Elisha with _______________ and Gideon with friendliness.
(a) Compassion
(b) Pity
(c) Annoyance
(d) Anger

5. The ghosts are leaving the cell, taking ____________ with them.
(a) No one
(b) Gad
(c) Elisha
(d) John

6. Who has not eaten all day because he is upset about what is going to happen to John Dawson?
(a) Joab
(b) Gad
(c) Elisha
(d) Gideon

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

8. What does Elisha describe his state as when Ilana asks him if he is hot?
(a) Sweating
(b) Stifling
(c) Melting
(d) Burning up

9. What are the positions of the people in the group of men that Gad has to select from?
(a) Rabbis
(b) Sergeants
(c) Revolutionaries
(d) Teachers

10. ____________ tells Elisha that John Dawson doesn't know he will be executed in the morning.
(a) Gideon
(b) Ilana
(c) Joab
(d) Gad

11. The boy tells Elisha, "You are the ________ of all that we have been," as Elisha begs for answers.
(a) Ghost
(b) Sum total
(c) Future
(d) Killer

12. What does John Dawson think of Elisha's name and how it sounds?
(a) He thinks it's familiar to him
(b) He thinks it's musical
(c) He thinks it's horrible
(d) He thinks it's appropriate

13. Elisha wants to ____________ Dawson, otherwise he's killing a man for no reason at all.
(a) Scare
(b) Hate
(c) Love
(d) Challenge

14. Elisha was named for a man who was a prophet of ____________, as he explains.
(a) Solomon
(b) Elijah
(c) Jesus
(d) David

15. Elisha does not want to take the food to Dawson, preferring to remember him as the man who never _________.
(a) Ate
(b) Cried
(c) Existed
(d) Wanted anything

Short Answer Questions

1. Elisha remembers a story where the nights sometimes allow the sky to open up so that the ____________ of unhappy children can be heard.

2. Who offers to break the news of his impending death to John Dawson?

3. Elisha does not believe that a man about to die could ever be ______________.

4. Ilana understands why Elisha doesn't want to see John Dawson - he is ________.

5. What does Ilana serve to the people who are sitting around the table?

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