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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Elias feel about school?
(a) He hates it.
(b) He is indifferent to school.
(c) He believes school and the church are too intertwined.
(d) He loves it.

2. What is the general view of Palestinians by Europeans?
(a) Palestinians have been greatly wronged by Zionists.
(b) The Palestinians are driven to their actions by the evil actions of the Zionists.
(c) There are bad Palestinians and there are lots of good Palestinians.
(d) Palestinians are evil, ignorant, and violent.

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

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

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

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

7. When the villagers return to Biram, what happens?
(a) They are able to peacefully resume living in their homes.
(b) The Zionist soldiers kill them all.
(c) The Zionist soldiers destroy the village.
(d) The Zionist soldiers help them move back into their homes.

8. Where does Elias go?
(a) To an orphanage.
(b) To the United States.
(c) To Saudi Arabia to study.
(d) To Jerusalem to study.

9. What are the Christians called who remain in Jerusalem?
(a) Mennonites.
(b) Iluminaries.
(c) Gnostics.
(d) Melkites.

10. What action supersedes other problems in the Middle East?
(a) The Russian aggression in Europe.
(b) The invasion of the Sinai Peninsula by Israel.
(c) The establishment of the PLO.
(d) The establishment of a quota of Arab citizens in Israel.

11. Why do the Zionist landowners employ native Palestinians?
(a) They feel guilty for taking the land away from the native Palestinians.
(b) They have to by law.
(c) They do not have enough Jews to keep the land cultivated.
(d) They are unschooled in the proper cultivation of the orchards.

12. What does Elias decide to do at the end of the chapter "Singled out?"
(a) To find a peaceful way to respond to the situation.
(b) To convert to Judaism.
(c) To fight as a terrorist.
(d) To move to the United States.

13. What does Elias wonder as he empathizes with the Jews and their treatment by the Third Reich?
(a) Why, when they had been so persecuted, they would choose to exhibit the same behaviors toward others in Israel.
(b) Why the Jews did not rise up in mass and fight.
(c) How the Jews who went so meekly to their deaths could be the same ethnic group as the Zionists that murder hundreds.
(d) Why the good, average Germans allowed it to happen.

14. Where do many of the villagers go?
(a) Iran.
(b) Haifa.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) The United States.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Elias often punished at his new school?

2. How do the Zionist act after the British leave?

3. Who of Elias's family is taken by the Irgun?

4. Since when has Palestine been under British rule?

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

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