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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Why do the Arab villages through which the men of Biram travel offer no help?
(a) They think they are thieves.
(b) They are afraid for their own safety.
(c) They have nothing to offer the men.
(d) They think the Zionist deserve the land.

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

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

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

6. How do the Zionist act after the British leave?
(a) They grab land that is not theirs blowing up villages in the process.
(b) They retreat to a small area around Jerusalem.
(c) They enact fair laws to protect the original inhabitants of Palestine.
(d) They start developing their land and leave the other groups alone.

7. What do the Zionist soldiers tell the people of Biram?
(a) That the Irgun will soon be arriving.
(b) That the Zionist soldiers would soon leave.
(c) That the Irgun want to buy their land for a fair price.
(d) That the villagers are in no danger.

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

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

10. What is frustrating to Elias?
(a) An intellectual approach to Biblical study.
(b) That the Jewish Supreme Court still refuses to hear Michael's petition.
(c) That he is not home where he should be helping his father.
(d) That his village is still not rebuilt.

11. How does Elias feel about school?
(a) He believes school and the church are too intertwined.
(b) He loves it.
(c) He hates it.
(d) He is indifferent to school.

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

13. Who of Elias's family is taken by the Irgun?
(a) Only both his older brothers.
(b) His father and three older brothers.
(c) Only his one older brother.
(d) Only his father.

14. What does Elias regret?
(a) Not joining the fight to expel the Zionist from his village.
(b) Not letting his family know how much he loves them.
(c) He tries not to have regrets.
(d) Coming to Europe to experience a church that had become so meaningless.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Elias travel for a retreat?

3. What soldiers would be coming to the village?

4. What is Elias beginning to understand?

5. What of the Bible is a mystery to Elias?

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