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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Into what does the Fedayeen unite?
(a) The country of Palestine.
(b) The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO.)
(c) They have too many factions to unite.
(d) The United Palestine Liberation Militia (UPLM.)

2. What is the Jewish state like in 1967?
(a) Fairly much chohesive and unified.
(b) No unified and many factions vying for power.
(c) Total chaos.
(d) Moving towards a major split into two sovereign countries.

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

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

5. What act by the Fedayeen worsens the situation terribly for Palestinians?
(a) Declaring a state of war.
(b) Killing the Prime Minister.
(c) Killing Jewish athletes in Munich.
(d) Setting off a bomb in a Jewish school and killing many children.

6. What is Biram like?
(a) Thriving.
(b) There is no evidence that there has ever been a village there.
(c) A few families are still living there.
(d) Abandoned.

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

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

9. Who mourned together?
(a) Christians and Muslims.
(b) No one as there is too much rancor.
(c) Jews and Palestinians.
(d) Muslims and Christians.

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

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

12. What does Elias do when he leaves Germany?
(a) Returns to the Middle East.
(b) Accepts a teaching post at Oxford.
(c) Leaves the priesthood.
(d) Emigrates to the United States.

13. Who takes over the rule of Palestine after WWI?
(a) The United States of America.
(b) The Russians.
(c) The British.
(d) The French.

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

15. How do the Christians in Ibillin feel?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Hopeless.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are those who are killed accused?

2. What does the world demand?

3. What does Elias realize is making matters worse in Ibillin?

4. What does the Israeli government do in response to Elias' growing fame?

5. What does Elias talk the sisters into doing?

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