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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Work, For the Night is Coming.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elias think most Europeans believe about Palestine?
(a) That the Jews move into an uninhabited land.
(b) That Palestine was a unreclaimable desert.
(c) That Palestine truly belongs to the Jews as God's chosen people.
(d) That Palestine needed more people.

2. Why are Michael and his brothers outraged?
(a) That they get paid a pittance.
(b) That they are employed on land that they own.
(c) That the Jewish landowner does not even live on the land.
(d) That the orchards have been cared for so poorly.

3. With what do the Palestinians still struggle?
(a) The need for validation.
(b) Their desire for revenge.
(c) Anger.
(d) Basic survival.

4. Where do many of the villagers go?
(a) Haifa.
(b) The United States.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Iran.

5. What is disturbing to Elias about the Western Europeans' perspectives on the Palestinian issue?
(a) It is vastly divergent from his experience.
(b) It is based on so little truth but is believed so strongly.
(c) It is so inaccurate.
(d) It is so prejudicial in favor of the Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Arab villages through which the men of Biram travel offer no help?

2. What does Elias show at the opening of each community center?

3. Which one of Jesus' sayings comes to Elias' mind at the end of this chapter?

4. What does the Israeli Supreme Court rule when the elders of Biram file a petition for permission to return to their homes?

5. When do the men who were taken by the Irgun return?

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