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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. What is the name of the King of Jordan's army?
(a) Arab Power.
(b) Arab Legion.
(c) Arab Secret Forces.
(d) Arab Blockade.

2. What do most Arabs think about the United Nations' plan for a partition of Palestine?
(a) They thought it was a great idea.
(b) They wanted to help create it.
(c) They thought the British were behind it.
(d) They thought it would not pass.

3. While on his deathbed in Chapter 1, what does Ibrahim's father give him?
(a) A dagger.
(b) A book.
(c) A ring.
(d) A cloak.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Plan D?

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

3. Where does Farouk go to make marriage arrangements between Ibrahim and Ramiza?

4. Who does Ibrahim have find out why the Jews flooded the canals?

5. According to Gideon, what is Islam used as an excuse for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens during the United Nations meeting on November 29, 1947?

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

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

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

5. What happens after an Arab attacked a woman in a kibbutz in 1925?

6. What happens when Ibrahim goes to the bank to withdraw money to pay for the boat he needs to go to Gaza?

7. What does Ibrahim do to try to secure safe passage for his villagers to Beruit.

8. As a child, what is Ishmael's relationship with the Jews like?

9. When Gideon and Foote meet in a Jerusalem restaurant to discuss the events in Tabah that worry them, what do they focus on?

10. What role does Fawzi Kabir play in displacing Arabs from Palestine?

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