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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Elisha begs the boy for answers, what does the boy reply?
(a) Don't you know?
(b) Do I know you?
(c) Who are you?
(d) What do you think the answer is?

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

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

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

6. Elisha believes he lost the answer to #146 on his way to _______________.
(a) France
(b) Palestine
(c) Buchenwald
(d) Sorbonne

7. ___________ is making murderers out of these people through his action.
(a) Elisha
(b) Gad
(c) Old Man
(d) Gideon

8. Looking back on the situation of killing the man, Gad says that he was very young and very _________.
(a) Weak
(b) Naive
(c) Understanding
(d) Innocent

9. Elisha says that it is ___________ to kill a complete stranger, which is why he wants to see Dawson.
(a) Difficult
(b) Cowardly
(c) Easy
(d) His duty

10. The boy who asks for his father to be healed does not get his wish, but he is turned into _______________ and carried up to heaven.
(a) A prayer
(b) A cloud
(c) An angel
(d) A ghost

11. Elisha's mother used to tell him there was a ____________ that would guide and protect him everywhere he goes.
(a) Ghost
(b) Goat of gold
(c) God
(d) Messenger

12. Who takes Elisha's arm and tells him to talk to the boy who looks like the Elisha of before?
(a) The rabbi
(b) His mother
(c) Beggar
(d) His father

13. Gad laughs at the response of John Dawson, saying that it's typical English to have a ______________.
(a) Stiff upper lip
(b) Desire for alcohol
(c) Healthy appetite
(d) Carefree attitude

14. Ilana understands why Elisha doesn't want to see John Dawson - he is ________.
(a) Excited
(b) Afraid
(c) Angry
(d) Sad

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Usually Elisha found the _________ of his rabbi, his old master to be reassuring, but not this time.

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

3. Elisha's master's eyes are like two globes of _________, two suns that burn his face.

4. Who urges Elisha to go take the food down to John Dawson?

5. The woman in the work camp likes making love to ____________ who are about to die.

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