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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ___________ is making murderers out of these people through his action.
(a) Elisha
(b) Gideon
(c) Gad
(d) Old Man

2. The tattered fragment of darkness has a face, Elisha sees, and that face is ___________.
(a) John's
(b) His father's
(c) His own
(d) His rabbi's

3. John is sad to think that Elisha _____________ him, but it's not true.
(a) Pities
(b) Hates
(c) Loves
(d) Likes

4. What does the assistant barracks leader try to do to Elisha when he discovers what he has done?
(a) Hits him
(b) Puts him outside
(c) Shoots him
(d) Tries to choke him

5. Who is NOT one of the people sitting around the table, thinking about David ben Moshe?
(a) Old Man
(b) Ilana
(c) Gad
(d) Elisha

6. _____________ is praying for the repose of the dead when Elisha comes upstairs.
(a) Joab
(b) Gideon
(c) Gad
(d) Ilana

7. Who urges Elisha to go take the food down to John Dawson?
(a) Ilana
(b) Gideon
(c) The Old Man
(d) The little boy

8. Who is NOT one of the people that Elisha sees filing into the room as the night goes on?
(a) A boy who looks like him
(b) His parents
(c) Beggar
(d) Old Man

9. Who has not eaten all day because he is upset about what is going to happen to John Dawson?
(a) Gideon
(b) Joab
(c) Elisha
(d) Gad

10. What does John Dawson want to tell Elisha even as the pistol is raised?
(a) A limerick
(b) A Bible story
(c) A funny story
(d) His sins

11. Instead of listening to Dawson, Elisha tries to focus on _________________, but since he's never seen him, this is hard.
(a) God
(b) The British Judge
(c) David ben Moshe
(d) The Old Man

12. Gideon is finally freed from his torture and imprisonment due to ______________.
(a) His captors finding a new torture victim
(b) Lack of evidence
(c) A prison breakout
(d) A cunning escape

13. Elisha's master's eyes are like two globes of _________, two suns that burn his face.
(a) Lava
(b) Fire
(c) Coal
(d) Water

14. Usually Elisha found the _________ of his rabbi, his old master to be reassuring, but not this time.
(a) Questions
(b) Answers
(c) Yelling
(d) Silence

15. What does John Dawson want to do as he is waiting for his execution?
(a) Write a note to his son
(b) See the sky
(c) Talk his way out of execution
(d) Kill himself

Short Answer Questions

1. Elisha comments that Dawson's hands are the hands of a _______________.

2. Who is the German resistance fighter that Elisha met in Buchenwald?

3. John repeatedly asks Elisha to give the ____________ to his son after his death.

4. What does his mother murmur to him when Elisha is standing in the room, asking questions of the people surrounding him?

5. Due to a ventilation system, Dawson's room is actually much less ___________ than the room above.

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