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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Palestine when Elias returns home?
(a) Three different countries, which are Israel, Palestine and Golan.
(b) Israel.
(c) It is still called Palestine, though there is a movement to rename it.
(d) Two different countries, which are Israel and Palestine.

2. What does Elias do on Palm Sunday?
(a) Asks that those who do not want to be there leave.
(b) Closes and chains the door to the church with everyone inside.
(c) Confesses his sins to the congregation.
(d) Asks the congregation to accept the Jewish settlement.

3. What is Bishop Joseph Raya determined to do?
(a) Get the word of god out to all peoples.
(b) Get the Fedayeen to change tactics.
(c) Teach peace instead of violence.
(d) Bring justice for the Palestinians.

4. What does Elias hope will be the action of those reading his book?
(a) They will petition their governments to intervene.
(b) They will actively work for justice.
(c) They will pray for all involved.
(d) They will have a better understanding of the Palestinian situation.

5. What are Elias's efforts in Ibillin not hugely successful?
(a) The villagers are fearful.
(b) He is viewed with suspicion.
(c) He receives no support from his Bishop.
(d) He is too pushy.

6. 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.

7. 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 negotiate peaceful co-existance.
(b) They would give the people more-than-fair prices for their land and help them relocate.
(c) They said God would take care of the problem.
(d) They would force resettlement of those peoples.

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

9. What does the world demand?
(a) That the soldiers be punished.
(b) That the PLO be punished.
(c) A stronger peacekeeping force.
(d) An investigation into Sabra and Shatila.

10. What event greatly increases support for the Zionist movement in Europe after WWII?
(a) Nothing; they were already strongly supportive.
(b) The legal actions of the British parliament.
(c) The bombing of a Jewish settlement by Palestinians.
(d) The holocaust.

11. What action must the Jews take according to Elias?
(a) Stop taking land.
(b) Stop believing everyone hates them.
(c) Find another way to survive rather than taking what is not theirs.
(d) Right the wrongs and return stolen land.

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

13. What does the happenings at Sabra and Shatila tell Elias?
(a) He no longer believes in God and is ready to leave the priest hood.
(b) God no longer cares about the world he made.
(c) His work is not finished in Israel.
(d) It is hopeless in the Middle East and he should not return.

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

15. Who is involved in the problem Elias learns about while he is in Germany?
(a) A banned sect of Irgun members.
(b) Lebanese Christians and Israeli soldiers.
(c) They do not know.
(d) The regular Israeli soldiers conduct the killings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Thomas Herzl?

2. What does Elias learn when he is giving a speech in Germany?

3. Who rules Palestine until the end of WWI?

4. Of what are those who are killed accused?

5. How does Elias say the Jews justify taking Palestinian land?

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