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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Elias's primary desire?
(a) To fight in the underground liberation group.
(b) To become a lawyer to fight the Zionist legally.
(c) To return to his home in Biram.
(d) For his parents to return to Biram and their former life of orchard care and serenity.

2. What is the biggest reason Michael Chacour is willing to work for someone else in his own orchards?
(a) He loves his trees.
(b) He believes the Jewish owner honestly thought he was buying vacant land.
(c) He has nowhere else to go.
(d) He wants to learn to forgive.

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

4. What do the Irgun ultimately carry out?
(a) A peaceful solution.
(b) Genocide.
(c) A short war to show their power.
(d) A mandate to resolve the Palestinian issue in a fair way.

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

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

7. 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) That it is exclusive.
(d) The idea of man being the center of all things.

8. What do the residents of Palestine hope?
(a) That Palestine would evolve into three different countries.
(b) That Palestine would be absorbed by a stronger Arab state for greater stability.
(c) That the British would continue their protectorate.
(d) That an independent state would soon be formed.

9. Where do the children in Biram attend school?
(a) In the village square.
(b) In the church.
(c) In the neighboring town.
(d) In a small city about twenty kilometers away.

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

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

12. From whom does Elias learn the most?
(a) The village pastor.
(b) His father.
(c) The village wise woman.
(d) His mother.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What church does Elias Chacour's family attend?

2. What is frustrating to Elias?

3. What are the Christians called who remain in Jerusalem?

4. What is happening in the new Jewish government?

5. What does the Israeli Supreme Court rule when the elders of Biram file a petition for permission to return to their homes?

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