Dawn

1. __Question__---Why does Elisha have to kill the british army officer? __Answer__--- The british had wounded one of the jewish men part of Elisha's terrorist group and were to hang him. (page 35)

2. Who helps Elisha distinguish between night and day and how? A beggar told him to look out a window and it's night when you see a face in it because night has a face (9).

3. Why does Gad say "don't torture yourself"? Because "This is war" (2).

4. Why can't anyone be in the synagogue after midnight? because that's when the dead rise and go there and you'll be carried away so you won't betray their secret (3).

5. How will the Movement get back at the English? by threatening John Dawson (6-7).

6. Where did Elisha meet Gad and why does he listen to Gad? in Paris; because he thinks Gad is a messenger of fate to whom nothing is impossible (11,15).

7. Where did Elisha go after leaving Buchenwald? A youth camp in Normandy (12).

8. What does Ilana (Gad's lover) say on the radio every time? "You are listening to the voice of freedom" (20).

9. Why won't John Dawson and David Ben Moshe die together, according to Ilana? because David knows why he's dying and John doesn't. David is a hero and John is a victim (21-22).

10. How old is Elisha? 18 years old (22).

11. What is death? "a being without arms or legs or mouth or head; it is all eyes" (22).

12. Why do the Jews kill? to get back at others who showed no care for them. They kill those who made them killers (26).

13. Who are Ilana's body guards? Gideon and Joab (30).

14. Why does Elisha refer to himself as a living graveyard? because he lost alot of friends (35).

15. Why do they call Joab a madman? because he pretended that he thought he was dead in an interrogation (38).

16. What do they call Gideon? the saint because he always has a prayer book and his father was a rabbi (39).

17. What does Elisha owe his life to? A laugh because while an assassin was choking him, Elisha looked so comical that the man released his grip to laugh (43).

18. When Elisha said that a last meal is a joke when you know you're dying, what did the others inform him of? John Dawson didn't know he was dying (45).

19. Who is Catherine and what did Ilana say to remind Elisha of her? Catherine was Elisha's first love whom he met in Paris. Ilana said, "poor boy!" just like Catherine said when Elisha told her about the boy who prayed for his father and became only a prayer (47-50).

20. Where did Elisha and Catherine used to go? under a tree (51).

21. Who was that "poor boy"? Elisha (53).

22. Who were all the people in the stuffy room? People Elisha oncwe knew or encountered (54).

23. Why are they there? To watch Elisha become a murderer because they made him so they are becoming murderers as well (57-58).

24. When Gideon told John he was going to die, how did he already know? his stomach told him (59).

25. What did Elisha's mother used to tell him? Everywhere he goes in life, the goat of gold will guide him (67).

26. What do the dead do when they are hungry? they judge without pity (71).

27. What does Elisha tell his mother he is? not a murderer, but a soldier fighting for freedom (73).

28. Who is Yerachmiel? Elisha's friend that died in a different concentration camp than the one Elisha was in (74).

29. What weapon did Gad give Elisha to kill John with? a new black revolver (78).

30. To execute a stranger is like what, according to Elisha? Shooting in the darkness or at a dead man (80).

31. What did John say about his son? he is Elisha's age but different than Elisha because he wasn't full of anxiety and unhappiness (like Elisha) (87).

32. Why does Elisha think John knew he was the killer? because he was all eyes and he smelled like death (85).

33. What was John's question and what is the answer? "you hate me, don't you?" and Elisha wished he did because it would've been easier to kill him then (93).

34. What does David sing while walking to his death? Hatikva, the song of hope (97).

35. Who did Elisha say he killed in the end? Elisha (102).