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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 is happening in the new Jewish government?
(a) They are consolidating their hold on the land.
(b) Fighting among factions.
(c) Stricter laws being passed against the native Palestinians.
(d) They are setting up relocation facilities.

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

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

4. Which one of Jesus' sayings comes to Elias' mind at the end of this chapter?
(a) "Work, for the night is coming."
(b) "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."
(c) "Ask and ye shall receive."
(d) "Blessed are the poor in spirit."

5. What event greatly increases support for the Zionist movement in Europe after WWII?
(a) The holocaust.
(b) The legal actions of the British parliament.
(c) The bombing of a Jewish settlement by Palestinians.
(d) Nothing; they were already strongly supportive.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do further land reforms harm the Palestinians?

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. What does Elias establish in Ibillin?

4. Who is Katoub?

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

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