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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does Elias's father make certain?
(a) That his children were well educated.
(b) That the children know their heritage.
(c) That the children understand how to be Arabs as well as Christians.
(d) That the children understand the reason for the visitors.

2. Where are Zionist soldiers winning against the British?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) On the border of Saudia Arabia.
(c) Southern Palestine.
(d) In the city of Jerusalem.

3. Why do they end up in Paris?
(a) They want out of the Middle East and it is the only option at the moment.
(b) They are offered full scholarships to law school there.
(c) They are unable to go to their original destination.
(d) The French are interested in helping the native Palestinians regain their land.

4. Who is Katoub?
(a) Elias's youngest sister.
(b) Elias's mother.
(c) Elias's wife.
(d) The village pastor.

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

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

7. What does Elias realize in church on his first day in Nazareth?
(a) He feels at home.
(b) He is not to become a lawyer.
(c) He is not to become a priest.
(d) God really is not involved in human's squabbles.

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

9. What sort of stories does Elias's mother teach him?
(a) Stories of her childhood in another country.
(b) Stories about the history of the Arabs.
(c) Stories about Mohammed and Abraham.
(d) Bible stories.

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

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

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

13. What do the seminarians believe the Zionist's mission should be?
(a) Convert to Christianity.
(b) Make peace with the native Palestinians and give back the land the Zionist stole.
(c) Clear Palestine of potential terrorists.
(d) Eschew violence.

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

15. Where do many of the villagers go?
(a) Iran.
(b) The United States.
(c) Haifa.
(d) Jerusalem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Faraj Nakhleh?

2. Who is Elias's hero?

3. What does Michael want for Elias?

4. How did the native Jewish inhabitants feel about the actions of the Zionists?

5. What does Elias begin to write?

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