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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Work, For the Night is Coming.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the state of the physical church building?
(a) It is kept up quite well.
(b) It is fine but quite filthy.
(c) There never was a church building there.
(d) In ruins.

2. What is disturbing to Elias about the Western Europeans' perspectives on the Palestinian issue?
(a) It is based on so little truth but is believed so strongly.
(b) It is so inaccurate.
(c) It is vastly divergent from his experience.
(d) It is so prejudicial in favor of the Jews.

3. What is Elias's schedule like in Nazareth?
(a) Strict and rigorous.
(b) Fairly relaxed.
(c) Quite easy.
(d) Tough but flexible.

4. What does Elias do with a monetary gift from a grateful village?
(a) Uses it to finance mediation between the villagers and a nearby Jewish settlement.
(b) Returns it to the village to begin construction on a library and community center.
(c) Uses it to buy television time in the United States to spread the word of the plight of the Palestinians.
(d) Gives it to his superior.

5. What percentage of non-Jewish communities existed in Palestine at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1917?
(a) 66.
(b) 25.
(c) 55.
(d) 92.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Since when has Palestine been under British rule?

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

5. How does Elias' increased fame help his people?

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