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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 does Bruce Sutherland give to the plan to evacuate nonessential British personnel from Palestine?

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

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

4. What was Theodor Herzl's financial condition?

5. Where does Jakov, now known as Barak, live before moving his family to the newest Jewish farming community?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Simon say about Jakov and Jossi attending the secret meetings?

3. Describe Major Caldwell's attitude toward Jews.

4. Describe the exchange between Kitty and Ari when she sees the hog pen at his parent's farm.

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

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

7. What is the fate of Dafna?

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

9. Where did Karen Hansen Clement grow up?

10. What exchange takes place between Ari and Taha?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the ideal of Israel and home so important to many of the Jews?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the lives of Jakov and Jossi.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the life of Karen Hansen Clement and how she came to be involved with the interment camps.

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