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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Outcasts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Elias's primary desire?
(a) To return to his home in Biram.
(b) For his parents to return to Biram and their former life of orchard care and serenity.
(c) To become a lawyer to fight the Zionist legally.
(d) To fight in the underground liberation group.

2. Where had the men been taken?
(a) To slave in reclaiming desert land.
(b) The Jordanian border.
(c) To prisons in Jerusalem.
(d) The Saudi Arabian border.

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

4. Who is Faraj Nakhleh?
(a) A fellow student with Elias.
(b) The man Elias's sister wants to marry.
(c) Michael's brother-in-law.
(d) Elias's uncle by marriage.

5. When the villagers return to Biram, what happens?
(a) They are able to peacefully resume living in their homes.
(b) The Zionist soldiers help them move back into their homes.
(c) The Zionist soldiers destroy the village.
(d) The Zionist soldiers kill them all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elias begin to write?

2. What do the seminarians believe the Zionist's mission should be?

3. What does Elias wonder as he empathizes with the Jews and their treatment by the Third Reich?

4. What is one challenge Elias and Faraj encounter in Paris?

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

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