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

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

3. Of what does Elias's father make certain?
(a) That his children were well educated.
(b) That the children know their heritage.
(c) That the children understand how to be Arabs as well as Christians.
(d) That the children understand the reason for the visitors.

4. What does Michael not want Elias to believe?
(a) That the only solution is war.
(b) That he is in a position of privilege.
(c) That he is being sent away because they have too many children to feed.
(d) That the only solution is capituation.

5. Where are Zionist soldiers winning against the British?
(a) In the city of Jerusalem.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) Southern Palestine.
(d) On the border of Saudia Arabia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Elias's primary desire?

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

4. What does Elias begin to write?

5. What church does Elias Chacour's family attend?

(see the answer key)

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