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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. Where does Elisha not want to return to after he is freed from the camps of the Nazis?
(a) Russia
(b) Palestine
(c) His native town
(d) Germany

2. Which side of the English vs. Palestinian conflict has probably had more casualties?
(a) Neither
(b) English
(c) Depends on who you ask
(d) Palestinian

3. From whom did Elisha learn a lesson when he was a child of twelve?
(a) His mother
(b) Old beggar
(c) His father
(d) Old Man

4. What does the mysterious figure ask of Elisha when he encounters him in the empty building?
(a) Are you afraid of the dark?
(b) What are your desires?
(c) Do you know God?
(d) Who do you serve?

5. ____________ seems indifferent to the idea of a man dying for no reason.
(a) Gideon
(b) Elisha
(c) Gad
(d) Ilana

Short Answer Questions

1. For six weeks, recruits are taught by ____________ instructors on how to use various kinds of weapons.

2. Who is now occupying the town in which Elisha and his parents once resided?

3. Every evening, Elisha has never failed to see a __________ when he stands at the window.

4. Gad talks to Elisha about realizing the age old Jewish dream of an independent ____________.

5. What is the commandment that the Jews have tried to live by, though they have suffered in the process?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Elisha rationalize the killing of others in the name of the Movement, even though scripture condemns it?

2. What is the face the Elisha sees the evening that takes place in this chapter?

3. How can one tell the different between night and day time, according to the beggar in Elisha's memory?

4. Describe the city setting at the start of the story when Elisha is standing near a window.

5. What do several masked instructors teach to the new recruits when they arrive in Palestine?

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

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

8. What are some of the basic ideas of the Movement's ideology as taught to recruits by Gad?

9. What happens when Gad offers Elisha a future when he visits with him one fateful day?

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

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