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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. The boy who asks for his father to be healed does not get his wish, but he is turned into _______________ and carried up to heaven.
(a) An angel
(b) A cloud
(c) A ghost
(d) A prayer

2. Who does Elisha see filing into the room, making the room feel very crowded?
(a) Children
(b) Soldiers
(c) Ghosts
(d) Students

3. Elisha remembers a story where the nights sometimes allow the sky to open up so that the ____________ of unhappy children can be heard.
(a) Laughter
(b) Cries
(c) Songs
(d) Prayers

4. Who takes Elisha's arm and tells him to talk to the boy who looks like the Elisha of before?
(a) Beggar
(b) His mother
(c) His father
(d) The rabbi

5. What does Elisha do as John Dawson begins to talk some more?
(a) He shoots him
(b) He calls for help
(c) He hits him
(d) He stops for a moment

Short Answer Questions

1. Elisha does not want to take the food to Dawson, preferring to remember him as the man who never _________.

2. The ghosts are leaving the cell, taking ____________ with them.

3. When it is time, Elisha sees a __________ giving absolution to David.

4. What does Elisha decide to do instead of going outside to freeze in the cold?

5. Gideon thinks he is only alive because he did not admit _____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John refuse to do when Elisha is preparing to kill him?

2. What does Elisha begin to understand about the idea of killing others as he talks with the younger version of himself?

3. What is strange about the boy that Elisha sees among the dead people who begin to surround him in the room?

4. What does Gideon reveal to Elisha about John Dawson, which surprises Elisha?

5. What is the question that Elisha asks of every ghost in the room with him, though he has a hard time getting an answer?

6. What happened to Stefan at the concentration camp where Elisha was held as well?

7. What did Ilana do to narrowly escape her own death, according to her recollection?

8. Who are some of the dead people that Elisha begins to see in the room around him?

9. What did Elisha do to narrowly escape his own death, according to his recollection?

10. What does John Dawson reveal about his appetite on the last night before his execution?

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