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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Elisha see filing into the room, making the room feel very crowded?

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

3. John repeatedly asks Elisha to give the ____________ to his son after his death.

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

5. Elisha remembers a story where the nights sometimes allow the sky to open up so that the ____________ of unhappy children can be heard.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why is Elisha positive that John Dawson will not want anything to eat during his time being captured?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Even in the face of pain and suffering, people in the Movement do not die - at least among the group of five.

Part 1: How do you think the five feel about their brushes with death?

Part 2: What do you think the Movement thinks about all of these brushes with death?

Part 3: Do you think these five have just been lucky or has divine intervention played a part?

Essay Topic 2

In many stories, the ending includes the redemption of those who are right and the slaughter of those who are wrong.

Part 1: Why do you think the author still had Dawson die within this story?

Part 2: How might the story have been different had Dawson been left alive?

Part 3: Do you think this is a realistic story to tell? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Gad is seen as someone who changes Elisha's life, but an outsider might also see his actions as attempting to brainwash the boy.

Part 1: How is Gad like a messenger in Elisha's life? How does he speak to Elisha in a way that reaches him?

Part 2: In what ways is Gad brainwashing the boy? Do you think this is being done on purpose?

Part 3: Do you think Gad is brainwashed by his own ideas? Why or why not?

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