1. What story does Elias's father explain to his children?
(a) About the effects of the last large earthquake in the region.
(b) About the way the British obtained rule of the area.
(c) About Hitler and the Holocaust in Europe.
(d) About the reason the people want the British to continue to rule their country.

2. What does Elias realize that warm afternoon?
(a) That an earthquake just shook the region.
(b) That his youngest sister has just been born.
(c) That something important is about to happen.
(d) That his father is finally returning from England that day.

3. What causes the villagers anxiety?
(a) That the earthquake may have relocated part of the artisian system.
(b) That the British will no longer help their village.
(c) That it is soldiers and not civilians coming to the village.
(d) That the British will take their improvements when they leave.

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

5. What do the residents of Palestine hope?
(a) That an independent state would soon be formed.
(b) That the British would continue their protectorate.
(c) That Palestine would be absorbed by a stronger Arab state for greater stability.
(d) That Palestine would evolve into three different countries.