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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dov Landau steal before fleeing to Jerusalem?
(a) A map
(b) A sacred artifact
(c) A few pieces of gold jewelry
(d) Karen's diary

2. What happens to the British plan to turn Fort Esther over to the Jews?
(a) The British destroy the fort
(b) The British change their minds and refuse to leave
(c) The British leave early and the Arabs take the fort
(d) The British fire on the Arabs and the Jews

3. What role does Karen play in the performance that recreates the history of the Jews?
(a) Mary
(b) Ruth
(c) Dafna
(d) Deborah

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

5. What is the significance of Latrun?
(a) It has no significance
(b) It is the site of Arab arms storage
(c) It is the key to protecting or attaching Jerusalem
(d) It is the stronghold at the border of the new state

6. What code name is given to the flights flown by Tex to bring in refugees?
(a) Operation Exodus
(b) Operation Magic Carpet
(c) Operaion Genesis
(d) Operation Stretch

7. What does Ari give Zev?
(a) A grenade
(b) A gun
(c) A Bible
(d) A bandage

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

9. 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 wedding
(d) That there's a farewell party for Kitty

10. Where does Jordana say she and David met?
(a) At an archaeological dig
(b) At the university
(c) At Gan Dafna
(d) At Jerusalem

11. Who meets Kitty at a nearby motel after she nurses Ari back to health?
(a) Dov Landau
(b) Karen
(c) Bruce Sutherland
(d) Jordana Ben Canaan

12. What does Kitty propose happen to the situation between herself and Kitty as they face the possibility of all out war?
(a) That Kitty and Jordana leave together
(b) That Kitty train to fight with the children
(c) That Kitty prepare for many wounded
(d) That they put their personal differences aside

13. What is the official response to the Arab contention that the Arab's love their land?
(a) That they do love their land, just as the Jewish people
(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 if they truly loved it, they could not have been forced from it

14. What tool does Kitty use to make the incision into Ari's leg?
(a) A sharpened stone
(b) A razorblade
(c) A machette
(d) A small knife

15. What challenge does Ari pose to Kitty at the Galilean Hotel?
(a) To race to a specific tree
(b) To swim to the raft
(c) To beat him at cards
(d) To remain in Palestine

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon do the Arabs come to believe the Jewish people have at their disposal?

2. Who takes over Fort Esther when the British evacuate?

3. What code name is given to Micky Marcus, the American army colonel who joins the Israelis?

4. What is Kitty's response when Jordana thanks her for caring for Ari?

5. What is the password on the night Dov Landau returns to Gan Dafna?

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