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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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. How do the Zionist act after the British leave?
(a) They enact fair laws to protect the original inhabitants of Palestine.
(b) They grab land that is not theirs blowing up villages in the process.
(c) They retreat to a small area around Jerusalem.
(d) They start developing their land and leave the other groups alone.

5. What does the United Nations do in the conflict?
(a) Give the Zionist eighty percent of all the land.
(b) Divide the land fairly with fertile land to each major group.
(c) Divide the land giving the fertile land to the Zionist.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sort of stories does Elias's mother teach him?

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

4. What do the Zionist soldiers tell the people of Biram?

5. How much are the Palestinians that are removed from their land compensated?

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