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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. The woman in the work camp likes making love to ____________ who are about to die.

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

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

4. Gad owes his life to three ____________ who were supposed to be killed in a specific way as directed by the Old Man.

5. John is sad to think that Elisha _____________ him, but it's not true.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the beggar do to Elisha when Elisha begs for answers about the meaning of his words?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ilana and Gideon look upon Dawson with kindness and with compassion, which seems odd as they are agreeing to kill him.

Part 1: Why do you think Gideon and Ilana seem to harbor no ill will toward Dawson in the story?

Part 2: How would you react if you were in the same room as a person who was going to die?

Part 3: Why do you think the group has not told Dawson he is going to die until he does?

Essay Topic 2

Ilana has a radio broadcast that talks about the idea that certain deaths are meaningful and others are not.

Part 1: Why do you think some deaths are more meaningful than others?

Part 2: Why do you think Ilana condemns the British government for the death of John Dawson?

Part 3: Isn't Ilana's logic incorrect? Why does she praise a death that the Movement does not necessarily want to occur?

Essay Topic 3

The presence of the Old Man is mysterious, though he controls all that happens in the story, it seems at times.

Part 1: Who do you think the Old Man is and just how powerful is he really in relation to the Movement?

Part 2: Why do you think the followers believe in what the Old Man says?

Part 3: Why do you think the followers go along with the ideas of the Old Man, even though they disagree?

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