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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When do the British withdraw from Palestine completely?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1944.

3. Where does Elias go?
(a) To Jerusalem to study.
(b) To the United States.
(c) To Saudi Arabia to study.
(d) To an orphanage.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elias decide to do at the end of the chapter "Singled out?"

2. Why does Israel heed the United States's wishes?

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

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

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

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