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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elias realize that warm afternoon?
(a) That his youngest sister has just been born.
(b) That an earthquake just shook the region.
(c) That his father is finally returning from England that day.
(d) That something important is about to happen.

2. What does Elias realize in church on his first day in Nazareth?
(a) He is not to become a priest.
(b) He feels at home.
(c) God really is not involved in human's squabbles.
(d) He is not to become a lawyer.

3. How do the scholars study the Bible?
(a) With reverence for God.
(b) In strictly intellectual and historical terms.
(c) With joy and curiousity.
(d) Doggedly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What causes the villagers anxiety?
(a) That the British will no longer help their village.
(b) That the British will take their improvements when they leave.
(c) That the earthquake may have relocated part of the artisian system.
(d) That it is soldiers and not civilians coming to the village.

11. Where does Elias go after his initial education?
(a) To join the Army.
(b) Seminary.
(c) Home.
(d) Law school.

12. What happens when the British withdraw from an area?
(a) Zionist set up a ruling counsel of Jews, Christians and Muslims.
(b) The Arabs push all Jewish Palestinians out.
(c) The land is vacant and anyone can make a claim.
(d) Zionist push all non-Jewish Palestinians out.

13. Since when has Palestine been under British rule?
(a) The 1930's.
(b) Since 1902.
(c) The 1920's.
(d) The Late 1800's.

14. Who is Katoub?
(a) Elias's wife.
(b) The village pastor.
(c) Elias's mother.
(d) Elias's youngest sister.

15. What does Michael tell Elias is the purpose of his leaving?
(a) To work toward the reconciliation of enemies.
(b) To learn law and then come and help his village.
(c) To learn the ways of the Jews in order to fight them.
(d) To get out of a dangerous situation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Zionist soldiers winning against the British?

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

3. What does Elias's father purchase?

4. Where is Biram?

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

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