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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 do the Jews give Wednesday, November 27, 1947?

2. What is the name given to the Jewish state in Palestine?

3. What organization is called on to prevent the mass murder of Etzion settlements upon their surrender to the Arabs?

4. What is the fate of the seventy-seven Jewish doctors accompanying a Red Cross convoy that is attacked by the Arabs?

5. What does Kitty propose happen to the situation between herself and Kitty as they face the possibility of all out war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What "artificial" ammunition is used by Ari in his quest to protect Gan Dafna and why?

2. Why is Kitty angry over Ari's reaction to Zev's death?

3. How does the newspaper in Tel Aviv report about the battles being won by the Jews? Why?

4. What is Barak Ben Canaan's task as the Jewish people seek intervention from the United Nations?

5. What is the effect of the rescue of Dov and Akiva on the British?

6. What is the policy and the attitude of Israel as refugees pour in?

7. What is the message contained in the letter from Dov Landau?

8. What effect does the radio cast have on the Jewish forces?

9. What two things happen in Karen's life that make Kitty believe she now has a chance of taking the girl to America?

10. What is the question facing the Jews after they are granted a state?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the lives of the children who live at Gan Dafna to that of the lives of children at the detention camp in Cyprus.

Essay Topic 2

What is it that finally brings Kitty and Jordana to a truce? Describe their emerging relationship.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the concentration camps as seen by David as he tries to figure out how to get 300 people out of them.

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