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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Elias immersed in at his new home?
(a) Learning all about the history of Palestine.
(b) Learning about the religion of the Jews.
(c) Biblical study.
(d) The study of law.

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

3. 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 fight as a terrorist.
(c) To convert to Judaism.
(d) To move to the United States.

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

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

6. What do the Christians in Biram believe about the Jews?
(a) They are the crucifiers of Jesus.
(b) They have their own ways and have no connection to the Chrisitans.
(c) Their lives are bound up with the Jewish people.
(d) They are heretics.

7. Where had the men been taken?
(a) To slave in reclaiming desert land.
(b) The Jordanian border.
(c) The Saudi Arabian border.
(d) To prisons in Jerusalem.

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

9. How does the family decide to greet the soldiers?
(a) Resignation.
(b) Fear.
(c) Welcoming.
(d) Defiance.

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

11. What does Elias wonder about happiness?
(a) How one could feel happy in poverty or grief.
(b) Why his friends who are not religious were happy.
(c) How a god that is unseen can give you happiness.
(d) Why happiness is not important.

12. What is Elias's primary desire?
(a) For his parents to return to Biram and their former life of orchard care and serenity.
(b) To return to his home in Biram.
(c) To become a lawyer to fight the Zionist legally.
(d) To fight in the underground liberation group.

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

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

15. When do the British withdraw from Palestine completely?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is frustrating to Elias?

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

3. What does the United Nations do in the conflict?

4. What does Elias regret?

5. Why do they end up in Paris?

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