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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. How does Elias feel about the situation with the Palestinians?
(a) Hopeless.
(b) Optimistic that the Jewish government will start being fair.
(c) Overwhelmed.
(d) Confused.

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

3. What percentage of non-Jewish communities existed in Palestine at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1917?
(a) 66.
(b) 25.
(c) 92.
(d) 55.

4. Who rules Palestine until the end of WWI?
(a) A group of independant tribes.
(b) The Ottoman Empire.
(c) The Russians and French share rule.
(d) There was no overarching ruler.

5. Where had the men been taken?
(a) To slave in reclaiming desert land.
(b) The Jordanian border.
(c) To prisons in Jerusalem.
(d) The Saudi Arabian border.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to a village as a result of Elias' intercession?

2. What leads to violence between the Zionist and native Palestinians during the 1930s?

3. How do further land reforms harm the Palestinians?

4. Who is Thomas Herzl?

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

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