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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action does the British take for the continuing Arab brutality?
(a) They set up checkpoints along the roads
(b) The set up a safe place for the Jews
(c) Nothing
(d) They arm the Jews

2. What is the official response to the Arab contention that the Arab's love their land?
(a) That if they truly loved it, they could not have been forced from it
(b) That they cannot love their land or they would have taken better care of their crops
(c) That they must now learn to love some other land
(d) That they do love their land, just as the Jewish people

3. What is the first country to recognize the Jewish declaration of independence?
(a) Britain
(b) The United States
(c) Egypt
(d) Spain

4. Why is the landing of the arms shipment by the Maccabees a problem?
(a) The plane is carrying an atom bomb
(b) There's an official truce
(c) The plane has no Israeli clearance
(d) The plane is carrying infectious disease

5. What is the name of the road David helps establish?
(a) The Barak Byway
(b) The Jerusalem Road
(c) The Pig Trail
(d) The Burma Road

6. What possession does each of the Yemenite men carry?
(a) Bedding and food
(b) A Bible
(c) A Torah
(d) A child

7. What is the first phase of the defense of Gan Dafna?
(a) A minefield that will send the attackers back
(b) Snipers
(c) A barage of canon power
(d) A minefield that will drive the attackers into a small area

8. What action does Zev lead?
(a) A direct attack on Fort Esther
(b) An offensive against the rear members of the attackers
(c) A retreat of the younger children
(d) An attack on a neighboring village

9. Where is the headquarters of Ari's command located?
(a) Gan Dafna
(b) The Statue of Light
(c) The Valley of Light
(d) The Fountain of Light

10. What name do the Jews give Wednesday, November 27, 1947?
(a) Black Thursday
(b) Day of Death
(c) Wonderful Wednesday
(d) Black Wednesday

11. What is Dov working on when he and Akiva are captured?
(a) A five-dollar bill
(b) A passport
(c) A birth certificate
(d) A passenger list

12. Why do the Arabs choose to attack Tirat Tsiv first?
(a) They believe they can take doctors hostage from that settlement
(b) They believe the battle will be fierce, therefore more honorable
(c) They believe the Orthodox Jews there will not fight back
(d) They believe a loss at that point will demoralize the Jews

13. What excuse is used for Kitty, Karen and the children to travel to Daliyat where Ari is injured?
(a) That Ari is injured
(b) That there's a funeral
(c) That there's a farewell party for Kitty
(d) That there's a wedding

14. What fate does Karen learn has befallen her father?
(a) He was imprisoned for his work with the Maccabees
(b) He was killed in Jerusalem
(c) He was taken hostage
(d) He was tortured by the Gestapo

15. Why does Dov turn toward the wall after visiting with Karen?
(a) So no one will see that he's in love
(b) So that he doesn't have to look at anyone
(c) So no one can see him cry
(d) So he can sleep

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David say exists that could help get supplies to Jerusalem?

2. What arrangements are made for the children of Gan Dafna?

3. Who meets Kitty at a nearby motel after she nurses Ari back to health?

4. Shipments of guns and other weapons arrive aboard what plane?

5. What sentence is passed on Dov and Akiva?

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