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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. What does Elias show at the opening of each community center?
(a) The film called The Diary of Anne Frank.
(b) The film called Schlinder's List.
(c) The film called The Hiding Place.
(d) A film documentary about the Holocaust.

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

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

4. With what is Elias temporarily elated?
(a) The success of the villagers at Ibillin.
(b) the march to the Knesset.
(c) The new awareness of the world to the Palestinian problem.
(d) The new rights awarded native Palestinians.

5. When do the men who were taken by the Irgun return?
(a) Never.
(b) A few months later.
(c) Several years later.
(d) A week later.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the secular Jews worried about as far as Zionism is concerned?

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

4. What act by the Fedayeen worsens the situation terribly for Palestinians?

5. Who is Thomas Herzl?

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