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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the Irgun and Haganah retaliate in Jerusalem?
(a) Their tanks were stolen.
(b) Their women were taken.
(c) Their buildings were set on fire.
(d) They were bombed.

2. When Ibrahim watches the Jewish settlers build terraces for farming, what does he wonder?
(a) How they will get anything to grow.
(b) Where they keep coming from.
(c) If they will make more money than the Arabs.
(d) How they have so many supplies.

3. Where does Ibrahim hide the night before he is set to take a boat to Beirut?
(a) A school.
(b) A church.
(c) A library.
(d) A hospital.

4. Why is Tabah considered an enemy village to Gideon?
(a) Ibrahim is Arab.
(b) Some residents are members of the Jihad Militia.
(c) They didn't support the Jewish settlements.
(d) Because of the fire bombings against Tabah's kibbutz.

5. How does Ibrahim plan to pay for the boat to take his villagers to Gaza?
(a) By stealing the boat.
(b) By borrowing money from Kabir.
(c) By offering bribes.
(d) By selling supplies.

6. Who does Ibrahim make a deal with for safe passage to Beirut for the Tabah villagers?
(a) A Greek captain.
(b) A Jewish leader.
(c) A British soldier.
(d) Kabir.

7. What does Ibrahim do to the perimeter of his town when the riots and attacks begin to reach the valley of Avalon?
(a) He moves his whole town.
(b) He puts up a brick wall.
(c) He lights it on fire.
(d) He lines it with guards.

8. How did the Jews respond to the first offer of a partitioned country?
(a) They turned it down immediately.
(b) They counter-offered.
(c) They were not included in it.
(d) They agreed to it.

9. What makes Ishmael curious about the kibbutz?
(a) Living next to one.
(b) His father's secrecy.
(c) Gideon's talks.
(d) Reading the Koran.

10. In Chapter 12, who is said to have "firmly established a new era and a new principle"?
(a) The Mufti.
(b) The British.
(c) The Special Night Squads.
(d) Ibrahim.

11. What country is Gustav Bockmann native to?
(a) England.
(b) Palestine.
(c) Israel.
(d) Germany.

12. How do Ishmael's brothers feel about him attending school?
(a) They think it is funny.
(b) They don't care.
(c) They are shocked.
(d) They are jealous.

13. What happens a few days before the Arab Higher Committee forms?
(a) Jews smash the windows of a Mosque.
(b) An Arab riot.
(c) A sand storm.
(d) Mufti build a fortress.

14. Why are the Tabah villagers surrounded by Jihad soldiers when they spend the night in a field in Ramle?
(a) They didn't trust the people of Tabah.
(b) It was a good hiding spot.
(c) It was a Jihad soldier base.
(d) They were protecting the people of Tabah.

15. Where does Ishmael attend school when he is nine?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Tabah.
(c) Ramle.
(d) Syria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ibrahim get the title "Haj"?

2. What do the Jews say it would take for Jaffa to remain a safe city?

3. What does Ibrahim say will happen to Ishmael when he catches him visiting the kibbutz?

4. Why do Gideon and Foote meet at a restaurant in Jerusalem?

5. How does news of the Jewish death camps affect Tabah?

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