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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bread of Orphans.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elias wonder about happiness?
(a) Why his friends who are not religious were happy.
(b) Why happiness is not important.
(c) How one could feel happy in poverty or grief.
(d) How a god that is unseen can give you happiness.

2. Where do the children in Biram attend school?
(a) In a small city about twenty kilometers away.
(b) In the village square.
(c) In the neighboring town.
(d) In the church.

3. What does Elias's father purchase?
(a) A donkey.
(b) A lamb.
(c) A camel.
(d) A bison.

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

5. What does Elias begin to write?
(a) Letters to Jesus.
(b) A fictionalized account of the horrors of Zionism.
(c) Letters to the leaders of Palestine.
(d) A book about a boy and how he finds peace.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the Christians in Biram believe about the Jews?

3. How do the Zionist soldiers act?

4. Where is Elias on a warm afternoon in 1947?

5. When the villagers return to Biram, what happens?

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