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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Karen when she leaves the home of her adoptive parents to search for her biological parents?
(a) Fifteen
(b) Fourteen
(c) Thirteen
(d) Twelve

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

3. 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

4. What was Theodor Herzl's financial condition?
(a) He made lots of money with his writing, so was wealthy in his own right
(b) He was from a wealthy family
(c) His wife was wealthy and provided him sufficient money
(d) He was very poor

5. What role does Kitty play aboard the Exodus during the hunger strike?
(a) She prays
(b) She nurses those who have passed out from lack of food
(c) She smuggles in food
(d) She rescues children, one at a time, by ferrying them to safety

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of jobs do Yakov and Jossi find around the city of Jaffa?

2. What task is Ari given by his father that ends with his being beaten?

3. What Jew was publicly humiliated after being accused of treason against France?

4. When Kitty asks why Ari doesn't request that she accompany him, what is David's response?

5. What was the signal that called the Jews of the Pale of Russia to the Sabbath?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Major Caldwell's attitude toward Jews.

2. Who ranks at the top of list of Jews being taken out of Europe under Ari's supervision as the war begins in Germany?

3. After twenty years, the Rabinsky brothers see no change in their new home. What is reason the farms fail?

4. What is the full quote Mark sees upon his arrival to Cyprus, and where does it come from?

5. What are the reactions of Jakov and Jossi to the death of their father?

6. Why are Palestine geography lessons given in the children's compound of the Caraolos camp?

7. How does Karen bring herself into contact with Dov?

8. Describe the significance of the row of toilets in the concentration camp where the Orthodox Jews are being held.

9. What is the answer to the question of how to raise children born on the commune farms?

10. When journalist Theodor Herzl hears the cry of "Death to all Jews," he comes to the conclusion that was echoed by many other Jews. What was that conclusion?

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