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

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

3. What does Gideon tell his friends and family to do after his first visit with the Arabs in Tabah?

4. What does Ibrahim tell Kabir he must have before leaving Tabah?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Operation Nachshon?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the Jericho Project. What were the purposes of the project and why did it fail? What does this project represent to this region of the Middle East?

Essay Topic 2

How is the United Nations a character in this novel? How does the United Nations drive the plot and motivate the characters? Why does the author include the United Nations in this way in his novel?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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