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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. The boy who asks for his father to be healed does not get his wish, but he is turned into _______________ and carried up to heaven.
(a) An angel
(b) A ghost
(c) A cloud
(d) A prayer

2. Who does Elisha see filing into the room, making the room feel very crowded?
(a) Students
(b) Children
(c) Soldiers
(d) Ghosts

3. What did the German resistance fighter lose during his torture at the hands of the Nazis?
(a) His right hand
(b) His right foot
(c) His left hand
(d) His eye

4. Elisha believes he lost the answer to #146 on his way to _______________.
(a) Palestine
(b) Buchenwald
(c) Sorbonne
(d) France

5. At midnight, the dead leave the graveyard to go to the __________, not to pray, but to eat.
(a) Mausoleum
(b) Synagogue
(c) Library
(d) Field

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John Dawson continue to do as Elisha raises his revolver to shoot him?

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

3. What does Ilana call Elisha, though he asks her to stop calling him that?

4. Ilana looks at Elisha with _______________ and Gideon with friendliness.

5. What does Elisha describe his state as when Ilana asks him if he is hot?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does John Dawson request from Elisha after he begins to pace around the room?

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

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

10. What is the first question John Dawson asks after Elisha and John stare at each other for a while?

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