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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Hassidic legends, the ______________ is always portrayed standing, according to Elisha's understanding.
(a) Devil
(b) God
(c) Mystic
(d) Messenger

2. What does Elisha have to do the following day that is making him pensive during this evening?
(a) Get married
(b) Take a test
(c) Kill a man
(d) Go home

3. What is a Meshulah, or the person that Elisha sees Gad during his time with Elisha?
(a) Leader of the World
(b) Messenger of fate
(c) Bringer of Doom
(d) God

4. Who is now occupying the town in which Elisha and his parents once resided?
(a) Germans
(b) Swiss
(c) Poles
(d) Russians

5. Gad talks to Elisha about realizing the age old Jewish dream of an independent ____________.
(a) Religion
(b) Homeland
(c) Power
(d) Government

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________ movements in Europe protest in front of British embassies.

2. What does Gad do incessantly as he talked to Elisha about his ideas of the world?

3. Elisha is usually uneasy about beggars who inspire in him mingled feelings of _________ and fear.

4. From what concentration camp did Elisha come during the events of World War II?

5. Where is John Dawson being kept in the two-story building as he is a hostage?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why didn't Elisha want to return to his native town where his family used to live?

2. What was the decision of the Old Man that Gad relayed to Elisha an hour earlier in the first chapter?

3. What does the English army do in response to the kidnapping of Captain John Dawson?

4. What does Ilana say about the two deaths of the two men who are to be executed?

5. What does Ilana say to John Dawson's mother during her radio program?

6. What is the cellar of the two story building somewhere between Ramat-Gan and Tel Aviv used for?

7. What has Elisha seen every night since hearing the advice of the beggar?

8. How did Elisha, the main character, come to be in France after the events of WWII?

9. What is the eleventh commandment that is taught to the recruits by a masked man with a soft voice?

10. What is the lesson that the beggar taught Elisha when he was walking through the dark?

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