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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is kept from Sabra and Shatila?
(a) Just UN peacekeepers; the press is allowed.
(b) Just the press; UN peacekeepers are allowed.
(c) The press and UN peacekeepers.
(d) The families of the people in Sabra and Shatila.

3. What is Ibillin?
(a) The village to which Elais is assigned.
(b) The village where Elias's family now lives.
(c) A town where much fighting is occurring.
(d) The village closest to Biram.

4. What does Elias ask of Westerners?
(a) Search for a means that both sides can win.
(b) Stop thinking that Arabs are the only terrorists in the situation.
(c) Ask hard questions of Israel.
(d) Stay out of the conflict.

5. What is the Zionists' reply to the argument that wherever they establish a State of Israel, there would already be people living there?
(a) They would force resettlement of those peoples.
(b) They said God would take care of the problem.
(c) They would negotiate peaceful co-existance.
(d) They would give the people more-than-fair prices for their land and help them relocate.

6. What does the Bishop tell Elias?
(a) That he is to take a vacation.
(b) That he is to increase the population of the sisters if possible.
(c) That he is to go to Hebrew University.
(d) That he is to take on an assistant.

7. Who comes back with Elias from Nazareth?
(a) His youngest sister and mother.
(b) His youngest sister.
(c) No one.
(d) Three Roman Catholic sisters..

8. How does Elias' increased fame help his people?
(a) His increased fame only increases Israel's rancor towards the Palestinians.
(b) Some countries begin to question Israel's policy towards the Palestinians.
(c) He is able to negotiate more recompense for displaced villagers.
(d) Money and volunteers pour in to help the villages.

9. What do the sisters start for the children?
(a) After school activities.
(b) Building a playground.
(c) Kindergarten.
(d) Bible school.

10. What does Elias do with a monetary gift from a grateful village?
(a) Uses it to finance mediation between the villagers and a nearby Jewish settlement.
(b) Returns it to the village to begin construction on a library and community center.
(c) Gives it to his superior.
(d) Uses it to buy television time in the United States to spread the word of the plight of the Palestinians.

11. How does Elias feel about the situation with the Palestinians?
(a) Hopeless.
(b) Confused.
(c) Optimistic that the Jewish government will start being fair.
(d) Overwhelmed.

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

13. Of what are those who are killed accused?
(a) Being of the wrong religion.
(b) Being of the wrong ethnic group.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Being part of the PLO.

14. What percentage of non-Jewish communities existed in Palestine at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1917?
(a) 92.
(b) 55.
(c) 25.
(d) 66.

15. How does Elias say terrorism is often redefined as?
(a) Justification for wrongs.
(b) Heroism.
(c) God's calling.
(d) Revenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Jewish state like in 1967?

2. Who takes over the rule of Palestine after WWI?

3. What does the happenings at Sabra and Shatila tell Elias?

4. What is Palestine when Elias returns home?

5. Who is involved in the problem Elias learns about while he is in Germany?

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