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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Grafted In.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What do the Christians in Biram believe about the Jews?
(a) They are heretics.
(b) They are the crucifiers of Jesus.
(c) They have their own ways and have no connection to the Chrisitans.
(d) Their lives are bound up with the Jewish people.

3. How do the scholars study the Bible?
(a) With reverence for God.
(b) With joy and curiousity.
(c) Doggedly.
(d) In strictly intellectual and historical terms.

4. What is Elias's primary desire?
(a) To return to his home in Biram.
(b) To fight in the underground liberation group.
(c) To become a lawyer to fight the Zionist legally.
(d) For his parents to return to Biram and their former life of orchard care and serenity.

5. From whom does Elias learn the most?
(a) The village pastor.
(b) The village wise woman.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Christians who remain in Jerusalem continue to believe?

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

3. What do the seminarians believe the Zionist's mission should be?

4. Where had the men been taken?

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

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