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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Elias's father purchase?
(a) A lamb.
(b) A bison.
(c) A donkey.
(d) A camel.

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

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

5. Where do the children in Biram attend school?
(a) In the church.
(b) In the neighboring town.
(c) In a small city about twenty kilometers away.
(d) In the village square.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Biram?

2. What happens when the British withdraw from an area?

3. Who is David Ben Gurion?

4. What soldiers would be coming to the village?

5. What of the Bible is a mystery to Elias?

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