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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 offers to break the news of his impending death to John Dawson?

2. Elisha believes he lost the answer to #146 on his way to _______________.

3. The boy tells Elisha that the ________ are hungry as Elisha considers taking food to Dawson.

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

5. What was the profession of the German resistance fighter from #163 that Elisha met?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is ironic about the room in which John is being held as a prisoner?

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

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

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

8. What did Ilana do to narrowly escape her own death, according to her recollection?

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

10. What is strange about the boy that Elisha sees among the dead people who begin to surround him in the room?

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

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 3

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?

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