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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. Why do the Arab villages through which the men of Biram travel offer no help?
(a) They are afraid for their own safety.
(b) They have nothing to offer the men.
(c) They think they are thieves.
(d) They think the Zionist deserve the land.

2. Who takes over the rule of Palestine after WWI?
(a) The United States of America.
(b) The French.
(c) The British.
(d) The Russians.

3. What is happening in the new Jewish government?
(a) They are setting up relocation facilities.
(b) Stricter laws being passed against the native Palestinians.
(c) Fighting among factions.
(d) They are consolidating their hold on the land.

4. What does Elias do with a monetary gift from a grateful village?
(a) Gives it to his superior.
(b) Uses it to finance mediation between the villagers and a nearby Jewish settlement.
(c) Uses it to buy television time in the United States to spread the word of the plight of the Palestinians.
(d) Returns it to the village to begin construction on a library and community center.

5. What does the Israeli government do in response to Elias' growing fame?
(a) Try to limit access to villages that Elias has helped.
(b) Arrest Elias.
(c) Confine Elias to Ibillin.
(d) Decide to force Elias to leave the Middle East.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Katoub?

2. Who of Elias's family is taken by the Irgun?

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

4. What does Elias decide to do at the end of the chapter "Singled out?"

5. What act by the Fedayeen worsens the situation terribly for Palestinians?

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