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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. Ilana is saved from being killed by a member of the opposition by a situation with ____________.

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

3. What does Elisha do as John Dawson begins to talk some more?

4. What is the profession of an old friend of Joab's that helps him with hiding from his neighbor?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the boy tell Elisha about all of the faces that Elisha sees around him in the room?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Elisha is a survivor of a Nazi work camp, and yet he becomes a killer for a group of people with strong beliefs - much like the Nazis preached.

Part 1: Why do you think Elisha didn't just walk away from the ideas of Gad?

Part 2: Why can't Elisha see that what he is doing is just as wrong as what the Nazis did to him and to others?

Part 3: Why do you think Elisha may have been more vulnerable to the words of Gad?

Essay Topic 2

According to all of the people who are guarding Dawson, they have cheated death in many a situation.

Part 1: Why do you think the author thought it was important for the characters to mention the fact that they had cheated death?

Part 2: Do you feel more or less sympathetic for these people as they speak about their brushes with death?

Part 3: Have you ever cheated death? How did that make you feel afterward? If not you, then someone else?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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