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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Elias realize that warm afternoon?
(a) That an earthquake just shook the region.
(b) That something important is about to happen.
(c) That his youngest sister has just been born.
(d) That his father is finally returning from England that day.

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

4. What was increasingly happening to non-Jewish Palestinians?
(a) They were being herded into concentration camps.
(b) They were becoming refugees in their own land.
(c) They were living peacefully alongside the Zionist.
(d) They were cooperating with the Zionist out of fear.

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

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

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

8. 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) Israel does not pay attention to the U.S. demands.
(d) The U.S. would not hesitate to support the Arabs if Jewish Israel does not align with the U.S.

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

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

11. Where does Elias go after his initial education?
(a) Law school.
(b) To join the Army.
(c) Seminary.
(d) Home.

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

13. What church does Elias Chacour's family attend?
(a) Seven Day Adventists.
(b) Hebrew Synagogue.
(c) Jehovah's Witness.
(d) Melkite Christian.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elias's father purchase?

2. What New Testament passage still disturbs Michael?

3. Since when has Palestine been under British rule?

4. What is the general view of Palestinians by Europeans?

5. What does the second Supreme Court rule?

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