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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Elias immersed in at his new home?
(a) Biblical study.
(b) Learning all about the history of Palestine.
(c) Learning about the religion of the Jews.
(d) The study of law.

2. Where is Biram?
(a) Iran.
(b) Palestine.
(c) Iraq.
(d) Arabia.

3. What story does Elias's father explain to his children?
(a) About the effects of the last large earthquake in the region.
(b) About the reason the people want the British to continue to rule their country.
(c) About the way the British obtained rule of the area.
(d) About Hitler and the Holocaust in Europe.

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

5. What does the United Nations do in the conflict?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Give the Zionist eighty percent of all the land.
(c) Divide the land fairly with fertile land to each major group.
(d) Divide the land giving the fertile land to the Zionist.

6. What soldiers would be coming to the village?
(a) American soldiers.
(b) German soldiers.
(c) French soldiers.
(d) Jewish soldiers.

7. What was increasingly happening to non-Jewish Palestinians?
(a) They were becoming refugees in their own land.
(b) They were cooperating with the Zionist out of fear.
(c) They were being herded into concentration camps.
(d) They were living peacefully alongside the Zionist.

8. Why do they end up in Paris?
(a) They want out of the Middle East and it is the only option at the moment.
(b) The French are interested in helping the native Palestinians regain their land.
(c) They are unable to go to their original destination.
(d) They are offered full scholarships to law school there.

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

10. What do the Christians in Biram believe about the Jews?
(a) Their lives are bound up with the Jewish people.
(b) They are the crucifiers of Jesus.
(c) They have their own ways and have no connection to the Chrisitans.
(d) They are heretics.

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

12. Where do Elias and his friend Faraj decide to go?
(a) To Jerusalem.
(b) To Biram.
(c) To the United States.
(d) To England.

13. What does Michael realize about Elias?
(a) That he needs more activity than other children his age.
(b) That he is in danger of becoming an activist.
(c) That he needs a purpose.
(d) That he is more spiritually oriented than the other children.

14. What does Elias's father purchase?
(a) A bison.
(b) A donkey.
(c) A camel.
(d) A lamb.

15. Where are Zionist soldiers winning against the British?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) In the city of Jerusalem.
(c) On the border of Saudia Arabia.
(d) Southern Palestine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is David Ben Gurion?

3. What is frustrating to Elias?

4. What does Michael not want Elias to believe?

5. What sort of stories does Elias's mother teach him?

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