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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. What kinds of jobs do Yakov and Jossi find around the city of Jaffa?
(a) Dock hands, field hands and movers for those leaving the city
(b) Guides for those who want to reach Palestine
(c) Teachers and keepers of God's laws
(d) Dock hands, field workers or overseers and rockmasons

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

3. Where are the sick children taken immediately after the standoff with the Exodus ends?
(a) A restaurant
(b) A Jewish hospital
(c) Directly to Palestine
(d) The Dome Hotel

4. What information is given from the ship regarding the hunger strike?
(a) The number of hours before the ship self-destructs
(b) The number of hours that have passed since the strike began
(c) The number of children who have passed out from hunger
(d) The number of Jews who have died trying to reach Palestine

5. What new name is given to the ship, The Stonewall Jackson?
(a) Exodus
(b) Apex
(c) The Promised Land
(d) Dunston Hill

Short Answer Questions

1. What day does Ari choose for the escape?

2. What job does Kitty hold at the camp where Karen and the other children live?

3. What name is given to the elite fighter unit formed by P.P. Malcolm?

4. What does Ari Ben Canaan say will be the fate of the Exodus and her three hundred, two children passengers if she's boarded?

5. What prestigious program accepts Karen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Kitty following the death of her husband and daughter?

2. Who was Andrew Dreyfus and what is the significance of his death for the Jewish community?

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

4. What are Kamaal's conditions of the sale of land to the Jews?

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

6. What name does Ari use when he's taking supplies and what ship is he supposedly taking them for? What's the significance?

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

8. Describe Major Caldwell's attitude toward Jews.

9. Officials discuss the situation with the Exodus. List at least two recommended courses of action.

10. What is the reaction of the Danish people when the Danish Jews are ordered to wear the yellow Star of David on an armband?

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