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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Ilana serve to the people who are sitting around the table?
(a) Rice
(b) Tea
(c) Lamb
(d) Coffee

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

5. What is NOT one of the torture methods used on Gideon during a time when he was arrested?
(a) Matches lit under fingernails
(b) Beard pulled
(c) Face spat on
(d) Drowned in a bucket

6. Ilana is saved from being killed by a member of the opposition by a situation with ____________.
(a) A friendly woman
(b) A broken leg
(c) A cold in the head
(d) A cup of tea

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

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

9. What is the profession of an old friend of Joab's that helps him with hiding from his neighbor?
(a) Soldier
(b) Librarian
(c) Superintendent
(d) Lawyer

10. At midnight, the dead leave the graveyard to go to the __________, not to pray, but to eat.
(a) Field
(b) Synagogue
(c) Library
(d) Mausoleum

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

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

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

14. Elisha's master's eyes are like two globes of _________, two suns that burn his face.
(a) Lava
(b) Coal
(c) Water
(d) Fire

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is NOT one of the people that Elisha sees filing into the room as the night goes on?

2. What does John Dawson want to tell Elisha even as the pistol is raised?

3. Dawson asks for Elisha's age and then tells him that is is ____________ for him.

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

5. "In a way, we are the ones to _________ John Dawson. Because you can't do it without us. Now, do you see?"

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