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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Since when has Palestine been under British rule?
(a) Since 1902.
(b) The 1930's.
(c) The 1920's.
(d) The Late 1800's.
2. To whom does Michael speak?
(a) The leaders of the new Arab Palestinian movement.
(b) The Zionist soldiers.
(c) God.
(d) The Church Bishop.
3. What was increasingly happening to non-Jewish Palestinians?
(a) They were living peacefully alongside the Zionist.
(b) They were cooperating with the Zionist out of fear.
(c) They were becoming refugees in their own land.
(d) They were being herded into concentration camps.
4. What does Elias realize in church on his first day in Nazareth?
(a) He feels at home.
(b) God really is not involved in human's squabbles.
(c) He is not to become a lawyer.
(d) He is not to become a priest.
5. What is one challenge Elias and Faraj encounter in Paris?
(a) The language.
(b) They were young and did not find their new home challenging.
(c) The customs.
(d) The size of the city.
6. Who of Elias's family is taken by the Irgun?
(a) His father and three older brothers.
(b) Only his father.
(c) Only both his older brothers.
(d) Only his one older brother.
7. How do the other seminarians feel about Palestine?
(a) They are wholly supportive of the Zionist movement.
(b) They are appalled at the way the Zionist were slaughtering innocent people.
(c) They were divided in support of the Zionist and the native Palestinians.
(d) There was very little knowledge of what is happening in Palestine.
8. How does Elias feel about what happens?
(a) He wants to come home.
(b) He rejoices in that his prayers have been answered.
(c) He experiences a rage that cannot be reconciled with the teachings of Jesus.
(d) He is devastated at the loss of his parents.
9. What do the seminarians believe the Zionist's mission should be?
(a) Eschew violence.
(b) Make peace with the native Palestinians and give back the land the Zionist stole.
(c) Convert to Christianity.
(d) Clear Palestine of potential terrorists.
10. 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) Bible stories.
(d) Stories about Mohammed and Abraham.
11. Where do the children in Biram attend school?
(a) In the village square.
(b) In the neighboring town.
(c) In the church.
(d) In a small city about twenty kilometers away.
12. 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.
13. Where does Elias go?
(a) To Jerusalem to study.
(b) To an orphanage.
(c) To Saudi Arabia to study.
(d) To the United States.
14. Where had the men been taken?
(a) To prisons in Jerusalem.
(b) The Saudi Arabian border.
(c) To slave in reclaiming desert land.
(d) The Jordanian border.
15. 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 put into limbo in the hopes the elders of Biram will give up.
(b) It is granted.
(c) It is denied.
(d) It is shelved until the Jewish state is more stable.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is Biram?
2. What is happening in the new Jewish government?
3. Why do the Zionist landowners employ native Palestinians?
4. Why are Michael and his brothers outraged?
5. What are the Christians called who remain in Jerusalem?
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