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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How do the Christians in Ibillin feel?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Hopeless.
(c) Angry.
(d) Optimistic.
2. Who takes over the rule of Palestine after WWI?
(a) The Russians.
(b) The French.
(c) The British.
(d) The United States of America.
3. With whom do the European Zionists enter in an alliance?
(a) The Duke of Wellingham.
(b) The Prime Minister of Britian.
(c) Lord Balfour.
(d) Lord Nothrup.
4. What does Elias expect of the Jews?
(a) That they accept a broader definition of who is God's children.
(b) That they would see how they had become as those who persecuted them were.
(c) That they would have more compassion.
(d) That they would be fair.
5. What does Elias realize is making matters worse in Ibillin?
(a) The misunderstanding between the Christians and the Muslims.
(b) The Jewish settlement starting within a few kilometers of the village.
(c) His own anger and lack of forgiveness to the Zionists.
(d) The required billeting of Jewish military forces in the village.
6. After his ordination, what does Elias receive?
(a) His first assignment.
(b) A ring symbolizing his new life.
(c) His inheritance from his father.
(d) A choice of things to do.
7. What does Elias establish in Ibillin?
(a) A political action center for the promotion of peace.
(b) A museum about the holocaust.
(c) A safe zone for displaced children.
(d) A youth camp for all faiths.
8. What is Palestine when Elias returns home?
(a) It is still called Palestine, though there is a movement to rename it.
(b) Israel.
(c) Two different countries, which are Israel and Palestine.
(d) Three different countries, which are Israel, Palestine and Golan.
9. 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) Meet with the elders of the native Palestinians.
(d) Some research on his own.
10. What does Elias hope will not happen?
(a) The press will not accept it as true.
(b) The Israeli government will ban it.
(c) Readers will simply discuss it with no action.
(d) The readers will not believe it.
11. What does the Israeli government do in response to Elias' growing fame?
(a) Confine Elias to Ibillin.
(b) Decide to force Elias to leave the Middle East.
(c) Try to limit access to villages that Elias has helped.
(d) Arrest Elias.
12. Of what does a fig tree remind Elias?
(a) His time as a child climbing the tree to get closer to God.
(b) His father working on the orchards.
(c) Jesus's curse of a tree in the New Testament.
(d) The idea of all humans being grafted together in a brotherhood by God.
13. To what are the Palestinian youth turning?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Terrorists.
(c) Education so they can hold their own against the Jews.
(d) Drugs, alcohol, and crime.
14. What is the Jewish state like in 1967?
(a) No unified and many factions vying for power.
(b) Moving towards a major split into two sovereign countries.
(c) Fairly much chohesive and unified.
(d) Total chaos.
15. How does Elias say terrorism is often redefined as?
(a) God's calling.
(b) Justification for wrongs.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Heroism.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the Responsible do when his support begins to erode?
2. What is Bishop Joseph Raya determined to do?
3. Who acts as a little dictator?
4. What action must the Jews take according to Elias?
5. What starts appearing at the door to Elias' residence?
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