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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where is Elias on a warm afternoon in 1947?
(a) In Beruit.
(b) In Jerusalem.
(c) In Constantinople.
(d) Sitting high in his favorite tree.

4. What does Michael realize about Elias?
(a) That he needs a purpose.
(b) That he needs more activity than other children his age.
(c) That he is more spiritually oriented than the other children.
(d) That he is in danger of becoming an activist.

5. What does Faraj say is the problem with Western theology?
(a) The belief that God is impersonal.
(b) The idea that man is equal to God.
(c) The idea of man being the center of all things.
(d) That it is exclusive.

6. Why does Israel heed the United States's wishes?
(a) The U.S. has nuclear arms.
(b) They know that support from America was critical to its survival.
(c) The U.S. would not hesitate to support the Arabs if Jewish Israel does not align with the U.S.
(d) Israel does not pay attention to the U.S. demands.

7. 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 a quota of Arab citizens in Israel.
(d) The establishment of the PLO.

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

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

10. What does the second Supreme Court rule?
(a) They still do not make a ruling.
(b) That the village of Biram no longer belongs to the original inhabitants.
(c) That the village of Biram is to be divided between the Jews and the original inhabitants.
(d) That the village of Biram is to be returned to the original inhabitants.

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

12. 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.

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

14. Where does Elias travel for a retreat?
(a) Italy.
(b) England.
(c) Germany.
(d) Swizerland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elias decide to do at the end of the chapter "Singled out?"

2. Who is David Ben Gurion?

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

4. What is frustrating to Elias?

5. Why do they end up in Paris?

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