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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name is given to the farm where Barak and his family go to live?

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

3. What does Ari's name mean?

4. What is the next step the children of the Exodus pledge after the hunger strike has gone on for days?

5. What area is considered the most important place in the Caraolos camp?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the fate of Dafna?

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

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

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

6. What is Ben Solomon's fate?

7. What does Sutherland say about the ability to frighten residents of the camp into submission?

8. 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?

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

10. What was the expectation when the Arabs sold land to the Jews and what was reality?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe life in the commune farms established by the Jews. What are the pros and cons of these?

Essay Topic 2

What is the difference between the levels of spirit and morale between the Jews and the Arabs?

Essay Topic 3

Ari encounters a man named Captain Allan Bridges who warns Ari that he is being watched. What does Ari say about the man after he leaves? What does this say about the complex relationships between the warring factions?

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