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

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

3. Who is the women in her mid-twenties that Elisha met while at the work camp in France?
(a) Marienne
(b) Catherine
(c) Juliana
(d) Julia

4. Usually Elisha found the _________ of his rabbi, his old master to be reassuring, but not this time.
(a) Questions
(b) Answers
(c) Yelling
(d) Silence

5. What does Gad reply when Elisha asks what he would have done if the men hadn't made a choice?
(a) I would have drawn straws
(b) I would have made them kill each other
(c) I'd have killed myself instead
(d) I would have shot them all

Short Answer Questions

1. Elisha's mother used to tell him there was a ____________ that would guide and protect him everywhere he goes.

2. The boy tells Elisha, "You are the ________ of all that we have been," as Elisha begs for answers.

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

4. What does the beggar tell Elisha as Elisha walks around asking questions of everyone?

5. Elisha wants to impose the image of ____________ torturer on John Dawson, but he cannot.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does John Dawson reveal about his appetite on the last night before his execution?

3. What does Ilana say when she talks about she also kills with her voice? Do they have a choice?

4. What did Gideon do to narrowly escape his own death, according to his recollection?

5. What is the macabre reasoning for Catherine's desire to make love to Elisha at the youth camp in Normandy?

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

7. What does John refuse to do when Elisha is preparing to kill him?

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

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

10. Why does John Dawson appear to pity Elisha instead of being mad at him?

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