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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. How do further land reforms harm the Palestinians?
(a) They forbid Palestianians to own more than 1/4 an acre for any reason.
(b) They forbid any more than three families to live adjacent to each other.
(c) The reforms take away more and more arable land.
(d) They forbid Palestinians to hold title to any land.

2. Who takes over the rule of Palestine after WWI?
(a) The French.
(b) The United States of America.
(c) The Russians.
(d) The British.

3. How does Elias feel about the situation with the Palestinians?
(a) Overwhelmed.
(b) Optimistic that the Jewish government will start being fair.
(c) Hopeless.
(d) Confused.

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 vastly divergent from his experience.
(d) It is so inaccurate.

5. What are the secular Jews worried about as far as Zionism is concerned?
(a) That it would commit as many wrongs as it rights.
(b) That it would make Judaism a culture rather than a religion.
(c) That it would become a terrorist organization.
(d) That it would isolate Jews from the world and increase anti-Semitism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Israeli Supreme Court rule when the elders of Biram file a petition for permission to return to their homes?

2. Where had the men been taken?

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

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

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

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