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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Katoub?
(a) Elias's wife.
(b) The village pastor.
(c) Elias's mother.
(d) Elias's youngest sister.

2. What do Elias and Faraj find lacking in their rather clinical studies?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) A sense of awe.
(c) Depth of knowledge by the teachers.
(d) A sense of community.

3. How do the other seminarians feel about Palestine?
(a) They are wholly supportive of the Zionist movement.
(b) They were divided in support of the Zionist and the native Palestinians.
(c) They are appalled at the way the Zionist were slaughtering innocent people.
(d) There was very little knowledge of what is happening in Palestine.

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

5. What does Elias wonder as he empathizes with the Jews and their treatment by the Third Reich?
(a) How the Jews who went so meekly to their deaths could be the same ethnic group as the Zionists that murder hundreds.
(b) Why, when they had been so persecuted, they would choose to exhibit the same behaviors toward others in Israel.
(c) Why the good, average Germans allowed it to happen.
(d) Why the Jews did not rise up in mass and fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What soldiers would be coming to the village?

2. What was increasingly happening to non-Jewish Palestinians?

3. What does Michael realize about Elias?

4. What does the second Supreme Court rule?

5. What does Elias decide he has to do about his people's struggles?

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