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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elias decide to do at the end of the chapter "Singled out?"
(a) To fight as a terrorist.
(b) To find a peaceful way to respond to the situation.
(c) To move to the United States.
(d) To convert to Judaism.

2. What does Michael want for Elias?
(a) Permission for Elias to emmigrate to the United States.
(b) Permission for Elias to continue to care for his orchards.
(c) To find him a spot in the children's liberation movement.
(d) A school for Elias.

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

4. What does Michael not want Elias to believe?
(a) That the only solution is capituation.
(b) That the only solution is war.
(c) That he is being sent away because they have too many children to feed.
(d) That he is in a position of privilege.

5. 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 Hitler and the Holocaust in Europe.
(d) About the reason the people want the British to continue to rule their country.

6. What action supersedes other problems in the Middle East?
(a) The establishment of a quota of Arab citizens in Israel.
(b) The establishment of the PLO.
(c) The invasion of the Sinai Peninsula by Israel.
(d) The Russian aggression in Europe.

7. What of the Bible is a mystery to Elias?
(a) The Beatitudes.
(b) The story of Issac and Essau.
(c) The story of Joseph.
(d) The miracles of healing by Jesus.

8. What New Testament passage still disturbs Michael?
(a) The Beatitudes.
(b) The parable of the loaves and fishes.
(c) Revelation.
(d) The parable of the rich man and the camel.

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

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

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

12. How does Elias feel about what happens?
(a) He wants to come home.
(b) He experiences a rage that cannot be reconciled with the teachings of Jesus.
(c) He is devastated at the loss of his parents.
(d) He rejoices in that his prayers have been answered.

13. Why is Elias often punished at his new school?
(a) For breaking rules and disagreeing with doctrine.
(b) For aruging against the Zionist.
(c) For aruging with the law professors.
(d) For refusing to do his school work.

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

15. What do Elias and Faraj find lacking in their rather clinical studies?
(a) A sense of community.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Depth of knowledge by the teachers.
(d) A sense of awe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Katoub?

2. Of what does Elias's father make certain?

3. Who is David Ben Gurion?

4. Why do the Arab villages through which the men of Biram travel offer no help?

5. What does Elias's father purchase?

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