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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Elias hold as he thinks of Sabra and Shatila?
(a) His dead mother's necklace.
(b) His dead friend's last letter.
(c) A dove to release.
(d) His dead sister's last letter.

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

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

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

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

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

10. To what are the Palestinian youth turning?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Drugs, alcohol, and crime.
(c) Education so they can hold their own against the Jews.
(d) Terrorists.

11. Who begins the process of unity?
(a) Elias and the Responsible.
(b) Two cousins.
(c) Two brothers.
(d) A father and son.

12. What is Elias read to do?
(a) File a large class-action suit.
(b) Leave Israel.
(c) Leave the priesthood.
(d) Join the fedayeen.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does a fig tree remind Elias?

2. What does Elias do to better understand the situation in Palestine?

3. What does Elias do with a monetary gift from a grateful village?

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

5. Into what does the Fedayeen unite?

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