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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the camp where Karen and the other refugees from the Exodus go to live?
(a) Camp Dafna
(b) Dafna's Statue
(c) Dafna's Farm
(d) Gan Dafna

2. What was the statue in the middle of the camp where Karen and the other refuges from the Exodus live?
(a) A garden in Dafna's honor
(b) A life-sized statue of Dafna
(c) A life-sized statue of Ari
(d) A fountarin

3. What does Ari's name mean?
(a) Lion, Son of God
(b) Son of a Lion
(c) Lion, Son of Canaan
(d) One from Canaan

4. Where does Dov spend his thirteenth birthday?
(a) In Auschwitz
(b) In the sewers beneath Warsaw
(c) In the ghetto with his family
(d) At the home of a Jewish sympathizer

5. What arrangements are made for the Orthodox Jewish children who are to be sailing on the Exodus?
(a) Kosher foods are purchased from Palestine
(b) They are told it's acceptable to eat non-kosher during the trip
(c) Kosher foods are made and canned for them
(d) Fishing poles are being taken along

6. What item is Simon Rabinsky trying to retrieve when he is killed?
(a) His father's Bible
(b) The Sefer Torah
(c) The Ark of the Covenant
(d) His son's barmitzah cap

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What job does Kitty hold at the camp where Karen and the other children live?
(a) She's a teacher and teaches basic subjects
(b) She's a teacher and teaches math and science
(c) She's a nurse, heading up the medical department
(d) She's an agriculturalist and teaches farming

14. What does Simon say is the purpose of a Jew?
(a) To guard the laws of God
(b) To live in harmony
(c) To study the Toran
(d) To protect the synagogue

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the question facing Kitty as the exodus prepares to sail?

2. Who is the speaker at the secret meeting attended by Yakov and Jossi?

3. What is the name of the movement started by Herzl?

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

5. What is another name for Chanukah?

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