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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What church does Elias Chacour's family attend?
(a) Melkite Christian.
(b) Jehovah's Witness.
(c) Hebrew Synagogue.
(d) Seven Day Adventists.

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

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

4. What do the seminarians believe the Zionist's mission should be?
(a) Eschew violence.
(b) Make peace with the native Palestinians and give back the land the Zionist stole.
(c) Convert to Christianity.
(d) Clear Palestine of potential terrorists.

5. Of what does Elias's father make certain?
(a) That the children understand how to be Arabs as well as Christians.
(b) That the children know their heritage.
(c) That his children were well educated.
(d) That the children understand the reason for the visitors.

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

12. What does the United Nations do in the conflict?
(a) Give the Zionist eighty percent of all the land.
(b) Divide the land giving the fertile land to the Zionist.
(c) Divide the land fairly with fertile land to each major group.
(d) Nothing.

13. What do the Irgun ultimately carry out?
(a) A peaceful solution.
(b) Genocide.
(c) A mandate to resolve the Palestinian issue in a fair way.
(d) A short war to show their power.

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

15. What does Elias see in Jesus?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Hope.
(c) Strength.
(d) Judgement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the general view of Palestinians by Europeans?

2. Who is Katoub?

3. What does Elias begin to write?

4. What contributes to the poor reputation of the Palestinians?

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

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