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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. John repeatedly asks Elisha to give the ____________ to his son after his death.
(a) Uniform
(b) Story
(c) Note
(d) Pencil

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. Who is the German resistance fighter that Elisha met in Buchenwald?
(a) Hans
(b) Jon
(c) Stefan
(d) Fritz

4. What does Gideon report back about the state of health of John Dawson?
(a) He is coughing
(b) He is hungry
(c) He is asleep
(d) He is vomiting

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

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 does not want to take the food to Dawson, preferring to remember him as the man who never _________.

4. Gideon is finally freed from his torture and imprisonment due to ______________.

5. Elisha wants to ____________ Dawson, otherwise he's killing a man for no reason at all.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Joab do to narrowly escape his own death, according to his recollection?

2. What does Elisha begin to understand about the idea of killing others as he talks with the younger version of himself?

3. What does the beggar do to Elisha when Elisha begs for answers about the meaning of his words?

4. What does the Berlin Chief of the Gestapo do to Stefan in order to try to get information from him?

5. What is strange about the boy that Elisha sees among the dead people who begin to surround him in the room?

6. What did Elisha do to narrowly escape his own death, according to his recollection?

7. How are things different when Elisha returns upstairs after the killing of John Dawson?

8. What do each of the people around the table slowly talk about as they are sitting together?

9. What does Elisha tell John Dawson about the meaning of his name after John comments on it?

10. Who are some of the dead people that Elisha begins to see in the room around him?

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