View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the native Jewish inhabitants feel about the actions of the Zionists?
(a) Supportive.
(b) They expressed no reaction.
(c) Shocked.
(d) Indifferent as long as they were left alone.

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

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

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

5. What is frustrating to Elias?
(a) That his village is still not rebuilt.
(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) An intellectual approach to Biblical study.

6. How do the scholars study the Bible?
(a) With joy and curiousity.
(b) With reverence for God.
(c) In strictly intellectual and historical terms.
(d) Doggedly.

7. What causes the villagers anxiety?
(a) That it is soldiers and not civilians coming to the village.
(b) That the British will take their improvements when they leave.
(c) That the British will no longer help their village.
(d) That the earthquake may have relocated part of the artisian system.

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

9. What is Elias beginning to understand?
(a) The joy of knowledge.
(b) The pain of Jews.
(c) The pain of having no religion.
(d) The joy of comradeship.

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

11. 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 let them go.
(d) He has to work to right the wrongs with violence if necessary.

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

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

14. What does the Israeli Supreme Court rule when the elders of Biram file a petition for permission to return to their homes?
(a) It is shelved until the Jewish state is more stable.
(b) It is granted.
(c) It is put into limbo in the hopes the elders of Biram will give up.
(d) It is denied.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Elias learn the most?

2. What does Elias wonder as he empathizes with the Jews and their treatment by the Third Reich?

3. When do the men who were taken by the Irgun return?

4. What was increasingly happening to non-Jewish Palestinians?

5. When do the British withdraw from Palestine completely?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 671 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample