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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 happens to a village as a result of Elias' intercession?
(a) Nuns move in to provide health care, parenting instruction, and schooling to all children.
(b) They decide to hold a peace rally.
(c) They decide to send their children for education in Jewish schools.
(d) They decide to hold a forgiveness rally.

2. Who is Thomas Herzl?
(a) The leader of them moderate Jews opposed to Zionism.
(b) The Zionist leader to whom Elias asks about Zionism.
(c) The founder of the Zionist movement.
(d) The leader of a faction of European Jews who want all Jews to move to Palestine.

3. What percentage of non-Jewish communities existed in Palestine at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1917?
(a) 92.
(b) 66.
(c) 55.
(d) 25.

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

5. What is the biggest reason Michael Chacour is willing to work for someone else in his own orchards?
(a) He wants to learn to forgive.
(b) He believes the Jewish owner honestly thought he was buying vacant land.
(c) He loves his trees.
(d) He has nowhere else to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is disturbing to Elias about the Western Europeans' perspectives on the Palestinian issue?

2. Why do the Zionist landowners employ native Palestinians?

3. With what do the Palestinians still struggle?

4. Who takes over the rule of Palestine after WWI?

5. What does the Israeli government do in response to Elias' growing fame?

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