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

2. What does Michael want for Elias?
(a) A school for Elias.
(b) Permission for Elias to continue to care for his orchards.
(c) Permission for Elias to emmigrate to the United States.
(d) To find him a spot in the children's liberation movement.

3. 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) How one could feel happy in poverty or grief.
(d) Why happiness is not important.

4. What does Elias wonder as he empathizes with the Jews and their treatment by the Third Reich?
(a) How the Jews who went so meekly to their deaths could be the same ethnic group as the Zionists that murder hundreds.
(b) Why the good, average Germans allowed it to happen.
(c) Why the Jews did not rise up in mass and fight.
(d) Why, when they had been so persecuted, they would choose to exhibit the same behaviors toward others in Israel.

5. What are Elias's efforts in Ibillin not hugely successful?
(a) He is too pushy.
(b) The villagers are fearful.
(c) He receives no support from his Bishop.
(d) He is viewed with suspicion.