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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is NOT one of the things Joab does during his 48-hour interrogation session?
(a) Does not react
(b) Spits at the interrogator
(c) Refuses to drink
(d) Refuses to eat

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

5. Due to a ventilation system, Dawson's room is actually much less ___________ than the room above.
(a) Stuffy
(b) Hot
(c) Airy
(d) Cold

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

7. Where did Joab hide in order to flee from a neighbor who was against the movement?
(a) Cave
(b) A friend's house
(c) School
(d) Insane asylum

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

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

10. What does Elisha decide to do instead of going outside to freeze in the cold?
(a) Go to the SS office
(b) Hide in the barracks
(c) Sleep in
(d) Go to the bathroom

11. The boy finally tells Elisha that the dead are not there to ________, but because they go wherever he goes.
(a) Upset
(b) Hurt
(c) Judge
(d) Educate

12. What did John Dawson say when Gideon asked him if he was hungry?
(a) If he was serious
(b) If he knew how to make bangers and mash
(c) If he could have a lager
(d) That he deserved a last good meal

13. Gideon is finally freed from his torture and imprisonment due to ______________.
(a) A prison breakout
(b) A cunning escape
(c) His captors finding a new torture victim
(d) Lack of evidence

14. "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) Believe
(d) Save

15. The boy tells Elisha that the ________ are hungry as Elisha considers taking food to Dawson.
(a) Living
(b) Gods
(c) Dead
(d) Enemy armies

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Instead of listening to Dawson, Elisha tries to focus on _________________, but since he's never seen him, this is hard.

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

4. Who is the German resistance fighter that Elisha met in Buchenwald?

5. John is sad to think that Elisha _____________ him, but it's not true.

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