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

2. What time is it when Ilana and Joab comment about how it's the longest night they've ever lived through?
(a) 2:00 AM
(b) 4:00 AM
(c) 1:00 AM
(d) 3:00 AM

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

4. What does Joab notice about himself once he is out of his hiding place?
(a) His hair has turned white
(b) His clothes are on backwards
(c) He is heavier
(d) His eyes are a different color

5. Instead of listening to Dawson, Elisha tries to focus on _________________, but since he's never seen him, this is hard.
(a) David ben Moshe
(b) God
(c) The British Judge
(d) The Old Man

Short Answer Questions

1. Elisha was named for a man who was a prophet of ____________, as he explains.

2. The ghosts are leaving the cell, taking ____________ with them.

3. The tattered fragment of darkness has a face, Elisha sees, and that face is ___________.

4. What is John Dawson staring at when Elisha enters his room to meet him?

5. Where does John Dawson's son, who is Elisha's age, go to school, according to John?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gideon reveal to Elisha about John Dawson, which surprises Elisha?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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