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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. ___________ is making murderers out of these people through his action.
(a) Elisha
(b) Old Man
(c) Gideon
(d) Gad

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

3. Who is NOT one of the people that Elisha sees filing into the room as the night goes on?
(a) Old Man
(b) A boy who looks like him
(c) His parents
(d) Beggar

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

5. What is the first question that Dawson asks Elisha after they stare at each other?
(a) Can I leave?
(b) Who are you?
(c) Why are you doing this?
(d) What time is it?

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John Dawson say when Gideon asked him if he was hungry?

2. Who has not eaten all day because he is upset about what is going to happen to John Dawson?

3. Usually Elisha found the _________ of his rabbi, his old master to be reassuring, but not this time.

4. Who takes Elisha's arm and tells him to talk to the boy who looks like the Elisha of before?

5. Due to a ventilation system, Dawson's room is actually much less ___________ than the room above.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the room feel crowded to Elisha as the clock ticks past midnight in the chapter?

3. What is the question that Elisha asks of every ghost in the room with him, though he has a hard time getting an answer?

4. What does Elisha ask John Dawson about when he sees how slender his fingers and hands are?

5. What happened to Stefan at the concentration camp where Elisha was held as well?

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

7. Who are the people who are sitting around the table at the start of this chapter?

8. What does John Dawson do when Gideon tells him that he is going to die at dawn the next day?

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

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

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