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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other group does Elias address?
(a) The common people of the world.
(b) The Arab nations around Israel.
(c) The United Nations.
(d) Nations who engage in arms build-ups and proliferation.

2. How does Elias say the Jews justify taking Palestinian land?
(a) Because God gave them the land thousands of years ago.
(b) Because they think the Palestinians do not deserve so much land.
(c) Because they must live somewhere.
(d) On the basis of the wrongs they have suffered in the past.

3. What does the Israeli government do in response to Elias' growing fame?
(a) Try to limit access to villages that Elias has helped.
(b) Decide to force Elias to leave the Middle East.
(c) Arrest Elias.
(d) Confine Elias to Ibillin.

4. What does the conflict between Israel and Egypt at this time become known as?
(a) The war of the prophets.
(b) The 100 days' war.
(c) The 30 days' war.
(d) The six days' war.

5. Why is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so horrible in Elias' eyes?
(a) It is based on greed.
(b) Because it is blood brothers fighting against each other.
(c) It is based on a false idea of God's will.
(d) It involves the death of women and children so often.

6. What seems to be the goal of both sides of the Palestinian conflict?
(a) Justice.
(b) Obliteration of one another.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Peace.

7. What does Elias talk the sisters into doing?
(a) Cooking a noonday meal for any who are hungry.
(b) One of them going to nursing school.
(c) Visitin Muslim women.
(d) Staying permanently.

8. What does Elias call upon the Palestinians to do?
(a) Stop hating the Jews.
(b) Stop the violence and martyrdom.
(c) Give the Jewish people a chance to redeem themselves.
(d) Refuse to move off their lands any more.

9. With whom do the European Zionists enter in an alliance?
(a) The Prime Minister of Britian.
(b) Lord Nothrup.
(c) Lord Balfour.
(d) The Duke of Wellingham.

10. What does Elias do to better understand the situation in Palestine?
(a) Meet with the elders of the native Palestinians.
(b) He has decided not to worry about the situation anymore as it is interfering with his studies.
(c) Some research on his own.
(d) Talk with several Zionists in Paris.

11. What does Elias think God desires?
(a) Justice.
(b) A new way of thinking.
(c) A turning to God.
(d) Reconciliation.

12. What does Israel do in retaliation?
(a) Appeals to the United Nations.
(b) Bombs Egypt and other Arab nations's ports.
(c) Sends thousand of Palestinian refugees into Egypt.
(d) Executes any Egyptian citizens found in Jerusalem.

13. For what does Elias receive numerous offers?
(a) Citizenship in other countries.
(b) University teaching positions.
(c) Legal assistance.
(d) Numerous jobs in every sector.

14. With what is Elias temporarily elated?
(a) The new rights awarded native Palestinians.
(b) The success of the villagers at Ibillin.
(c) The new awareness of the world to the Palestinian problem.
(d) the march to the Knesset.

15. What does Elias show at the opening of each community center?
(a) The film called The Diary of Anne Frank.
(b) The film called The Hiding Place.
(c) A film documentary about the Holocaust.
(d) The film called Schlinder's List.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the lay person in charge of the church in Ibillin angry?

2. What happens to a village as a result of Elias' intercession?

3. Who mourned together?

4. What does Elias decide to do?

5. What is Biram like?

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