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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What special talent does Yakov's wife have?
(a) Tending the vegetable garden
(b) Tending children
(c) Tending the dairy cows
(d) Tending the hogs

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

3. Malcolm shoots an Arab who refuses to answer a question. What lesson does he say this teaches his fighters?
(a) An Arab who won't talk can't be coerced
(b) Never use brutality to get information, get right to the point
(c) There's no way to manage a hostage or prisoner
(d) There's no need trying to talk to those who speak a different language

4. What name was given to the plan of evacuating nonessential British personnel from Palestine?
(a) Operation Polly
(b) Operation Folly
(c) Operation Genesis
(d) Operation Exit

5. What day does Ari choose for the escape?
(a) June 5, 1945
(b) July 17, 1946
(c) Day six of an official ten-day evacuation
(d) The day after an important Jewish holiday

6. When Kitty asks why Ari doesn't request that she accompany him, what is David's response?
(a) That Ari never asks for anything
(b) That Kitty is an outsider because she isn't Jewish
(c) That Ari doesn't want her along
(d) That Ari is planning to ask her but hasn't had time

7. Where is Mark told to go upon his arrival?
(a) The Dome Hotel
(b) Madrid
(c) The concentration camps
(d) To bed

8. How long do Yokav and Jossi walk?
(a) Four years
(b) Fourty days
(c) Forty years
(d) Forty months

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

10. What does Yakov do in retaliation of his father's death?
(a) Nothing. His brother Jossi commits the crime
(b) Stabs a hunchbacked Jew hater named Andreeve
(c) Kills a group of students
(d) Burns a Christian Bible

11. What idea does Jossi want to implement on the farms?
(a) To use slaves as labor
(b) To abandon the idea of crops in favor of crafts
(c) To farm only dry-weather crops that can survive the climate
(d) To operate them as a self-sustaining commune

12. Who where the adoptive parents of Karen Hansen Clement?
(a) Aage and Meta Hansen
(b) Johann and Meta Clement
(c) Aage and Mariam Hansen
(d) Johann and Mariam Clement

13. What does Dov do upon his arrival at Auschwitz that saves his life?
(a) He says he's a master forger and proves it
(b) He impressses a guard with his forgery
(c) He pleads with a doctor to spare his life
(d) He says he's a master forger but refuses to use the skill

14. What is the name of the first farm established by the Zion Settlement Society?
(a) Star of David
(b) Shoshanna
(c) Susanna
(d) The Promised Land

15. What fate does Karen learn befell her mother and brothers?
(a) They were gassed at Auschwitz
(b) They were all terminated at Dachau
(c) They died in a children's compound
(d) They remain interred at La Ciotat

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the illness that strikes many of those living on the farm with Barak and his family, and which causes the first two deaths on the farm?

2. What name is given to the farm where Barak and his family go to live?

3. What in written on the sign over the entrance to Auschwitz?

4. What arrangements are made for the Orthodox Jewish children who are to be sailing on the Exodus?

5. Who is Mark expecting to meet upon his arrival in Cyprus?

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