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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 career does Karen pursue in the army?

2. Where are Dov and Akiva held after their capture?

3. What is the purpose of setting off firecrackers during the attack on Gan Dafna?

4. Why is the landing of the arms shipment by the Maccabees a problem?

5. What mistake does Barak say that Ari has made in understanding what Kitty wants from him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice does Akiva give Dov when Karen comes to visit and why?

2. What activities occupy the Jews forced to live underground in the Huleh Valley? What impact does this have on the people?

3. Why is Kitty angry over Ari's reaction to Zev's death?

4. What two things happen in Karen's life that make Kitty believe she now has a chance of taking the girl to America?

5. What are some of the issues faced by the pilot called Tex during his flight with the one hundred forty-two Yemenites?

6. What does Barak point out about the options the fleeing Arabs have available?

7. What is Barak Ben Canaan's task as the Jewish people seek intervention from the United Nations?

8. What is the effect of the rescue of Dov and Akiva on the British?

9. What risky plan is concocted to get children out of Gan Dafna?

10. What is the question facing the Jews after they are granted a state?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the life of Karen Hansen Clement and how she came to be involved with the interment camps.

Essay Topic 2

Compare the lives of the children who live at Gan Dafna to that of the lives of children at the detention camp in Cyprus.

Essay Topic 3

Why was it necessary that the story drop back in time to Russia in 1884 in order to tell the story of Ari? Was it effective to the story?

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