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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tough Miracles.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom does Michael speak?
(a) The Church Bishop.
(b) The leaders of the new Arab Palestinian movement.
(c) The Zionist soldiers.
(d) God.

3. How much are the Palestinians that are removed from their land compensated?
(a) One goat per acre.
(b) One cow per acre.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They are compensated fairly but they do not want to move.

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

5. What event greatly increases support for the Zionist movement in Europe after WWII?
(a) Nothing; they were already strongly supportive.
(b) The bombing of a Jewish settlement by Palestinians.
(c) The legal actions of the British parliament.
(d) The holocaust.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does the family decide to greet the soldiers?

4. How do the Christians in Ibillin feel?

5. What is the biggest reason Michael Chacour is willing to work for someone else in his own orchards?

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