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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. Who does Ibrahim have find out why the Jews flooded the canals?
(a) Ishmael.
(b) Fawzi.
(c) Roge.
(d) Farouk.

2. What does Ibrahim say will happen to Ishmael when he catches him visiting the kibbutz?
(a) He will take him out of school.
(b) He will send him back to his mother.
(c) He will sell him.
(d) He will kill him.

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

4. In Chapter 16, why does Sheik Azziz say he doesn't care who rules Palestine?
(a) Because he knows Arabs will win.
(b) Because he read it in a book.
(c) Because he does not believe in rulers.
(d) Because he lives in the desert.

5. What do the Jews say it would take for Jaffa to remain a safe city?
(a) The end of Arab attacks on Jerusalem.
(b) Ten-thousand dollars.
(c) The end of Arab attacks on Tel Aviv.
(d) Five-hundred thousand dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most Arabs think about the United Nations' plan for a partition of Palestine?

2. What does Kabir promise Farouk after the war if he stays in Tabah?

3. Where does Kaukji tell Ibrahim he must take his people and their tribes?

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

5. What year is it when Farouk tells Ibrahim that the Jews are coming?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Ramiza's first born son?

2. What do the Jews do to prepare their land for farming?

3. What do the Jewish people do when they first arrive?

4. What have groups of Arab leaders begun doing since the mention of a partition of Palestine?

5. What surprises the Arabs when they attack the Jews for the first time?

6. What happens when Mercedes arrives in Tabah on Christmas day?

7. Why does Ibrahim have a feast for Kabir when he arrived in Tabah?

8. In Chapter 16, what do Sheik Azziz and Ibrahim discuss during their trip?

9. What happens when Bockmann visits the Mufti in Jerusalem in 1937?

10. What is Gideon's role after the news of the Jewish death camps?

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