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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When do the British withdraw from Palestine completely?

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

4. What are the Christians called who remain in Jerusalem?

5. How do the Zionist act after the British leave?

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