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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 role does Kitty play aboard the Exodus during the hunger strike?
(a) She smuggles in food
(b) She nurses those who have passed out from lack of food
(c) She rescues children, one at a time, by ferrying them to safety
(d) She prays

2. What does Ari Ben Canaan say will be the fate of the Exodus and her three hundred, two children passengers if she's boarded?
(a) The dynamite in the engine room will be blown up, killing them all
(b) They will all refuse to eat once they're returned to the camps
(c) They will all jump overboard
(d) They'll fight

3. What was the name of the paper in which Theodor Herzl put down his ideas about the need for establishing a Jewish nation?
(a) The Star of David
(b) The Paris Chronicle
(c) The Jewish Nation
(d) The Jewish State

4. What was Theodor Herzl's financial condition?
(a) He was very poor
(b) He was from a wealthy family
(c) He made lots of money with his writing, so was wealthy in his own right
(d) His wife was wealthy and provided him sufficient money

5. What is another name for Chanukah?
(a) Night of Lights
(b) Festival of Lights
(c) Exodus
(d) Festival of Lanterns

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David Ben Ami's name mean?

2. What job does Kitty hold at the camp where Karen and the other children live?

3. How long do Yokav and Jossi walk?

4. What are the ages of the children aboard the ship?

5. What in written on the sign over the entrance to Auschwitz?

Short Essay Questions

1. What name does Ari use when he's taking supplies and what ship is he supposedly taking them for? What's the significance?

2. Describe the exchange between Kitty and Ari when she sees the hog pen at his parent's farm.

3. Officials discuss the situation with the Exodus. List at least two recommended courses of action.

4. What is the reaction of the Danish people when the Danish Jews are ordered to wear the yellow Star of David on an armband?

5. David, one of the adults aboard the Exodus, is asked whether they should give in to demands and return the children to port. What is his reply?

6. Who was Andrew Dreyfus and what is the significance of his death for the Jewish community?

7. Describe the significance of the row of toilets in the concentration camp where the Orthodox Jews are being held.

8. How do Jakov and Jossi escape when they are cornered by a group of students intent on beating them up?

9. What exchange takes place between Ari and Taha?

10. Who ranks at the top of list of Jews being taken out of Europe under Ari's supervision as the war begins in Germany?

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