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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Elias beginning to understand?
(a) The pain of Jews.
(b) The pain of having no religion.
(c) The joy of knowledge.
(d) The joy of comradeship.

2. What does Elias regret?
(a) Coming to Europe to experience a church that had become so meaningless.
(b) He tries not to have regrets.
(c) Not letting his family know how much he loves them.
(d) Not joining the fight to expel the Zionist from his village.

3. What story does Elias's father explain to his children?
(a) About the way the British obtained rule of the area.
(b) About the reason the people want the British to continue to rule their country.
(c) About Hitler and the Holocaust in Europe.
(d) About the effects of the last large earthquake in the region.

4. What does Elias's father purchase?
(a) A camel.
(b) A donkey.
(c) A lamb.
(d) A bison.

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

6. Why is Elias often punished at his new school?
(a) For breaking rules and disagreeing with doctrine.
(b) For aruging against the Zionist.
(c) For refusing to do his school work.
(d) For aruging with the law professors.

7. What do the Christians who remain in Jerusalem continue to believe?
(a) That Jesus is a metaphor for how one should live.
(b) That Jesus is God.
(c) That God designated Jerusalem as the city of salvation.
(d) That Jesus is a human with godlike qualities.

8. What do the residents of Palestine hope?
(a) That Palestine would be absorbed by a stronger Arab state for greater stability.
(b) That an independent state would soon be formed.
(c) That the British would continue their protectorate.
(d) That Palestine would evolve into three different countries.

9. What is one challenge Elias and Faraj encounter in Paris?
(a) The language.
(b) They were young and did not find their new home challenging.
(c) The customs.
(d) The size of the city.

10. Where does Elias travel for a retreat?
(a) Italy.
(b) England.
(c) Germany.
(d) Swizerland.

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

12. Who is Elias's hero?
(a) St. Paul.
(b) Abraham.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Elijah.

13. What does Elias decide he has to do about his people's struggles?
(a) He has to work to right the wrongs with violence if necessary.
(b) He has to work to right the wrongs in court legally.
(c) He has to put the struggles of his people into the perspective of God's plan.
(d) He has to let them go.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michael tell Elias is the purpose of his leaving?

2. Where had the men been taken?

3. How does Elias feel about what happens?

4. Where are Zionist soldiers winning against the British?

5. When do the British withdraw from Palestine completely?

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