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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. 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 the Zionist deserve the land.
(c) They are afraid for their own safety.
(d) They think they are thieves.

2. 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 negotiate peaceful co-existance.
(b) They said God would take care of the problem.
(c) They would give the people more-than-fair prices for their land and help them relocate.
(d) They would force resettlement of those peoples.

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

4. 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 granted.
(c) It is shelved until the Jewish state is more stable.
(d) It is put into limbo in the hopes the elders of Biram will give up.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What event greatly increases support for the Zionist movement in Europe after WWII?

3. Who is Katoub?

4. What does Elias do with a monetary gift from a grateful village?

5. What does Elias think most Europeans believe about Palestine?

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