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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Swept Away.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was increasingly happening to non-Jewish Palestinians?
(a) They were cooperating with the Zionist out of fear.
(b) They were being herded into concentration camps.
(c) They were living peacefully alongside the Zionist.
(d) They were becoming refugees in their own land.

2. What happens when the British withdraw from an area?
(a) The Arabs push all Jewish Palestinians out.
(b) The land is vacant and anyone can make a claim.
(c) Zionist push all non-Jewish Palestinians out.
(d) Zionist set up a ruling counsel of Jews, Christians and Muslims.

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

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

5. How does Elias feel about school?
(a) He believes school and the church are too intertwined.
(b) He loves it.
(c) He is indifferent to school.
(d) He hates it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Elias's father explain to his children?

2. Since when has Palestine been under British rule?

3. What does Elias realize that warm afternoon?

4. Who is Elias's hero?

5. For what is the purchase?

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