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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. Why does Heuseinni have to move around the Middle East so much?
(a) He was buying a lot of land.
(b) He travelled for work.
(c) He was trying to find his religion.
(d) He was wanted for war crimes.

2. What did Ishmael's mother encourage him to do when he was staying with her?
(a) Learn a trade.
(b) Get a good education.
(c) Steal from the market.
(d) Write his father often.

3. What does Gideon tell his friends and family to do after his first visit with the Arabs in Tabah?
(a) To get guns.
(b) To go home.
(c) To start a fire.
(d) To build a fence.

4. Who does Ibrahim have find out why the Jews flooded the canals?
(a) Farouk.
(b) Roge.
(c) Ishmael.
(d) Fawzi.

5. In Chapter 12, who is said to have "firmly established a new era and a new principle"?
(a) The Mufti.
(b) The British.
(c) Ibrahim.
(d) The Special Night Squads.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Arab well not have any water in it?

2. Why is Tabah considered an enemy village to Gideon?

3. Why does the British foreign secretary order a blockade of Palestine?

4. In Part 2, Chapter 1 -5, how does Ibrahim feel about Gideon?

5. What does Ibrahim say will happen to Ishmael when he catches him visiting the kibbutz?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. What happens during Gideon's meetings with British Colonel Frederick Brompton?

7. What is Operation Nachshon?

8. What happens to Ramiza's first born son?

9. What advice does Brompton give regarding Plan D?

10. What happens when Mercedes arrives in Tabah on Christmas day?

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