Here are questions for the last two chapters of DAWN. You test will come from all these questions (as well as questions on rules for commas, semi-colons, colons, dashes).
CHAPTER FIVE
1. What does Elisha imagine that the room is filled with?
2. What does the beggar tell Elisha about this night?
3. What does the little boy tell him?
4. Why is it significant that it is the boy who speaks?
5. How did John Dawson react when told he would die?
6. Why does Elisha not want to see Dawson eat?
7. What problem does Elisha think is worse than fear?
8. In what way does Ilana say that war is like night.
9. What other observations of war does she make?
10. After the war ends, what does Elisha think will remain?
11. What does he think the silent dead do?
12. What does he say the freedom nation is built upon?
13. Elisha says he is not a murderer but an idealist. How is this true?
14. In what way did he, as a youth, try to follow any idealist dream?
15 What do the presences symbolize as far as what makes a man?
16. What does the revolver symbolize for Elisha?
17. Why does he say that in an hour everything will be different?
CHAPTER SIX
1. What is ironic about the meaning of Elisha's name?
2. What does Elisha think the next day will bring him?
3. Why does John Dawson understand Elisha better than any human being?
4. What two burning sensations does Elisha feel?
5. Whom does Elisha picture when he tries to picture David Ben Moshe?
6. What experiences did Dawson's artistic hands make Elisha think of?
7. Is he right in saying, "Now our only chance lies in hating you, in learning the necessity and art of hate"?
8. What is the meaning of, "I've killed Elisha"?
9. What does he hear his mother say to him?
10. Explain the last line of the novel.
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