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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Faraj Nakhleh?
(a) Michael's brother-in-law.
(b) Elias's uncle by marriage.
(c) A fellow student with Elias.
(d) The man Elias's sister wants to marry.

2. What soldiers would be coming to the village?
(a) French soldiers.
(b) German soldiers.
(c) Jewish soldiers.
(d) American soldiers.

3. Where do Elias and his friend Faraj decide to go?
(a) To England.
(b) To Biram.
(c) To Jerusalem.
(d) To the United States.

4. When do the men who were taken by the Irgun return?
(a) Never.
(b) A few months later.
(c) A week later.
(d) Several years later.

5. What is happening in the new Jewish government?
(a) Stricter laws being passed against the native Palestinians.
(b) They are setting up relocation facilities.
(c) They are consolidating their hold on the land.
(d) Fighting among factions.

6. Why do they end up in Paris?
(a) They want out of the Middle East and it is the only option at the moment.
(b) They are unable to go to their original destination.
(c) They are offered full scholarships to law school there.
(d) The French are interested in helping the native Palestinians regain their land.

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

8. How did the native Jewish inhabitants feel about the actions of the Zionists?
(a) They expressed no reaction.
(b) Indifferent as long as they were left alone.
(c) Shocked.
(d) Supportive.

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

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

11. What is frustrating to Elias?
(a) That his village is still not rebuilt.
(b) An intellectual approach to Biblical study.
(c) That he is not home where he should be helping his father.
(d) That the Jewish Supreme Court still refuses to hear Michael's petition.

12. What is the biggest reason Michael Chacour is willing to work for someone else in his own orchards?
(a) He believes the Jewish owner honestly thought he was buying vacant land.
(b) He has nowhere else to go.
(c) He loves his trees.
(d) He wants to learn to forgive.

13. What does the second Supreme Court rule?
(a) They still do not make a ruling.
(b) That the village of Biram is to be divided between the Jews and the original inhabitants.
(c) That the village of Biram is to be returned to the original inhabitants.
(d) That the village of Biram no longer belongs to the original inhabitants.

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

15. Why are Michael and his brothers outraged?
(a) That they get paid a pittance.
(b) That the orchards have been cared for so poorly.
(c) That they are employed on land that they own.
(d) That the Jewish landowner does not even live on the land.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the scholars study the Bible?

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

4. What church does Elias Chacour's family attend?

5. What does Elias realize that warm afternoon?

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