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

2. Why is one of Ibrahim's villagers captured by Mufti and Mujahedeen?

3. What business do Ibrahim and his brother Farouk own?

4. Who does Ibrahim make a deal with for safe passage to Beirut for the Tabah villagers?

5. Before he agrees to send him to school, what does Ibrahim tell Ishmael his future will be?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens during Gideon's meetings with British Colonel Frederick Brompton?

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

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

4. How do the Mufti increase Arab violence toward Jews?

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

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

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

8. How does Ibrahim's father pass on power before he dies?

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

10. Why does Ibrahim call Gideon in Part 2, Chapter 11?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the role of the refugee camp. How do these camps impact the people who stay in them? How do they impact the people who do not stay in them? What is the message the author delivers about refugee camps?

Essay Topic 2

Choose three of the leaders from this novel and compare and contrast them. Consider the way they rule their people, their political beliefs, and their successes/failures.

Essay Topic 3

Consider the role of outside countries on Palestine and the characters of this novel. Write about what the countries actually do, how they view the region, how the region views them, and what the impact is.

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