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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 do the Irgun ultimately carry out?
(a) A mandate to resolve the Palestinian issue in a fair way.
(b) A short war to show their power.
(c) Genocide.
(d) A peaceful solution.

3. For what is the purchase?
(a) An important visitor.
(b) For traveling to Jerusalem.
(c) For use in the new orchad his dad just buys.
(d) The birth of his new sister.

4. Who is David Ben Gurion?
(a) An immigrant from the United States
(b) The leader of the Zionist.
(c) The leader of the original Jewish inhabitants of Palestine.
(d) An orthodox Jew who believed in a peaceful solution in Palestine.

5. Where is Elias on a warm afternoon in 1947?
(a) In Beruit.
(b) In Constantinople.
(c) Sitting high in his favorite tree.
(d) In Jerusalem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Zionist landowners employ native Palestinians?

2. What does Michael tell Elias is the purpose of his leaving?

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

4. What does the United Nations do in the conflict?

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

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