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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. Where do the children in Biram attend school?
(a) In a small city about twenty kilometers away.
(b) In the neighboring town.
(c) In the village square.
(d) In the church.

2. How do the Zionist soldiers act?
(a) Extrememly hostile.
(b) Brusque and unfriendly.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Threatening.

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

4. What sort of stories does Elias's mother teach him?
(a) Stories about the history of the Arabs.
(b) Bible stories.
(c) Stories of her childhood in another country.
(d) Stories about Mohammed and Abraham.

5. What does Elias begin to write?
(a) A fictionalized account of the horrors of Zionism.
(b) A book about a boy and how he finds peace.
(c) Letters to the leaders of Palestine.
(d) Letters to Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the state of the physical church building?

4. Upon what does Elias embark?

5. About what is the United Nations pressuring Israel?

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