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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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 Jesus is a human with godlike qualities.
(d) That God designated Jerusalem as the city of salvation.

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

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

8. Who is David Ben Gurion?
(a) The leader of the original Jewish inhabitants of Palestine.
(b) An immigrant from the United States
(c) An orthodox Jew who believed in a peaceful solution in Palestine.
(d) The leader of the Zionist.

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

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

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

12. How much are the Palestinians that are removed from their land compensated?
(a) One goat per acre.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They are compensated fairly but they do not want to move.
(d) One cow per acre.

13. From whom does Elias learn the most?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) The village wise woman.
(d) The village pastor.

14. Where is Biram?
(a) Palestine.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Iran.
(d) Arabia.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sort of stories does Elias's mother teach him?

3. What do the residents of Palestine hope?

4. Where had the men been taken?

5. Where does Elias go?

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