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

2. What does the Israeli Supreme Court rule when the elders of Biram file a petition for permission to return to their homes?
(a) It is denied.
(b) It is shelved until the Jewish state is more stable.
(c) It is put into limbo in the hopes the elders of Biram will give up.
(d) It is granted.

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

4. What leads to violence between the Zionist and native Palestinians during the 1930s?
(a) Wholesale slaughter of native Palestinians by the Zionist.
(b) Illegal seizure of lands by the Zionist.
(c) Increased immigration of Jews into Palestine.
(d) The other Arab countries sending in small groups of men to help the native Palestinians.

5. What is the Zionists' reply to the argument that wherever they establish a State of Israel, there would already be people living there?
(a) They would give the people more-than-fair prices for their land and help them relocate.
(b) They would force resettlement of those peoples.
(c) They said God would take care of the problem.
(d) They would negotiate peaceful co-existance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Thomas Herzl?

2. Why do the Zionist landowners employ native Palestinians?

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

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

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

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