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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Karen say the Jews are being aided in their quest to reach Palestine?
(a) To live in concentration camps
(b) To provide free labor on civil projects
(c) To be human experiments
(d) To serve as soldiers to fight the Arabs

2. What is Dov's job during his stay in Auschwitz?
(a) He creates documents to fool the Jewish people
(b) He leads the daily writing lessons
(c) He makes one and five dollar bills
(d) He doesn't have a job

3. What is the question facing Kitty as the exodus prepares to sail?
(a) Whether to go to Palestine or cut ties with Karen
(b) Whether to go to Palesting alone or with the Exodus
(c) Whether she loves Mark Parker
(d) Whether to fly or sail to the Riveria

4. What is the name given to Ari's younger sister?
(a) Janet
(b) Arianna
(c) Jordana
(d) Karen

5. How did the name of Fort Esther come to be?
(a) The fort was built at the burial site of Queen Esther
(b) The fort was built at the site where Ari's grandmother, Esther, died
(c) The fort was named for a Jewess named Esther who died fighting the Arabs
(d) There was no reason

6. Who is the young Jewish boy Major Caldwell is charged with transporting to Jerusalem?
(a) Ben Canaan
(b) Ben Husseini
(c) Ben Solomon
(d) Ben Barak

7. What is the original name of the village where Ari and Dafna serve?
(a) El Ha
(b) The Guardpost
(c) Eden
(d) The Gan

8. What name does Bruce Sutherland give to the plan to evacuate nonessential British personnel from Palestine?
(a) Operation Folly
(b) Operation Polly
(c) Operation Genesis
(d) Operation Exit

9. What weapon does Ari carry when he takes a second trip Asta?
(a) A Toran
(b) A bullwhip
(c) A spear
(d) A gun

10. Caldwell issues a statement regarding policy toward Jews. What does Cecil Bradshaw compare that statement to?
(a) Adolf Hitler's Final Solution
(b) The persecution of Jesus
(c) The civil rights movement
(d) The Spanish Inquisition

11. What is the Karpathos?
(a) The ship Mark Parker sails on to arrive at Cyprus
(b) The camp where Karen teaches children
(c) The school Karen where Karen learns to dance
(d) The ship Karen sails on in her first effort to reach Palestine

12. What is the next step the children of the Exodus pledge after the hunger strike has gone on for days?
(a) That they will all continue to starve
(b) That ten volunteers will commit suicide each day
(c) That ten volunteers will come ashre each day
(d) That they will begin jumping from the boat

13. What instruction does Ari give Kitty as they enter the tent of the Bedouin sheik?
(a) To be quiet because women aren't to be heard
(b) To bow upon entering and leaving
(c) To each whatever she's offered
(d) To avoid direct eye contact

14. What does Ari want Kitty to do?
(a) Work at Caraolos so that she can teach the children English
(b) Work at Caraolos so that she can care for the children's health
(c) Work at Caraolos so that she can smuggle out a child every day
(d) Work at Caraolos so that she can carry papers in and out

15. Where do Yakov and Jossi tell their father they are going when they leave for the secret meeting?
(a) To say a minyan for Reb Horowitz
(b) To study
(c) Courting
(d) A meeting of the Jewish Fellowship

Short Answer Questions

1. What area is considered the most important place in the Caraolos camp?

2. What day does Ari choose for the escape?

3. How do Yakov and Jossi plan to reach Palestine?

4. Who does Kitty encounter pacing back and forth in the makeshift hospital as she leaves Karen's room?

5. What was the statue in the middle of the camp where Karen and the other refuges from the Exodus live?

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