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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) Iran.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Haifa.
(d) The United States.

2. Why do the Zionist landowners employ native Palestinians?
(a) They do not have enough Jews to keep the land cultivated.
(b) They feel guilty for taking the land away from the native Palestinians.
(c) They are unschooled in the proper cultivation of the orchards.
(d) They have to by law.

3. Who of Elias's family is taken by the Irgun?
(a) Only his father.
(b) Only his one older brother.
(c) Only both his older brothers.
(d) His father and three older brothers.

4. What is disturbing to Elias about the Western Europeans' perspectives on the Palestinian issue?
(a) It is so prejudicial in favor of the Jews.
(b) It is based on so little truth but is believed so strongly.
(c) It is so inaccurate.
(d) It is vastly divergent from his experience.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom do the European Zionists enter in an alliance?

2. What is the Zionists' reply to the argument that wherever they establish a State of Israel, there would already be people living there?

3. Why do the Arab villages through which the men of Biram travel offer no help?

4. With what is Elias temporarily elated?

5. Why are Michael and his brothers outraged?

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