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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Swept Away.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Elias feel about school?
(a) He hates it.
(b) He is indifferent to school.
(c) He loves it.
(d) He believes school and the church are too intertwined.

2. Of what does Elias's father make certain?
(a) That the children understand the reason for the visitors.
(b) That the children understand how to be Arabs as well as Christians.
(c) That the children know their heritage.
(d) That his children were well educated.

3. How much are the Palestinians that are removed from their land compensated?
(a) One goat per acre.
(b) One cow per acre.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They are compensated fairly but they do not want to move.

4. What does Elias realize that warm afternoon?
(a) That his youngest sister has just been born.
(b) That something important is about to happen.
(c) That his father is finally returning from England that day.
(d) That an earthquake just shook the region.

5. What do the Zionist soldiers tell the people of Biram?
(a) That the villagers are in no danger.
(b) That the Zionist soldiers would soon leave.
(c) That the Irgun will soon be arriving.
(d) That the Irgun want to buy their land for a fair price.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elias see in Jesus?

2. What soldiers would be coming to the village?

3. Since when has Palestine been under British rule?

4. What causes the villagers anxiety?

5. What does the United Nations do in the conflict?

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