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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elias set up in anticipation of his absence?
(a) A church council.
(b) A structure of authority for the women of the village.
(c) A new project to keep the villagers busy.
(d) Three new Responsible positions.

2. Upon what does Elias embark?
(a) A letter-writing campaign to the Bishop for reassignment.
(b) A letter-writing campaign to the Jewish authorities for protection.
(c) Fixing up the church building.
(d) Visiting every household in the village.

3. What does Elias call upon the Palestinians to do?
(a) Stop the violence and martyrdom.
(b) Refuse to move off their lands any more.
(c) Give the Jewish people a chance to redeem themselves.
(d) Stop hating the Jews.

4. What is disturbing to Elias about the Western Europeans' perspectives on the Palestinian issue?
(a) It is so inaccurate.
(b) It is based on so little truth but is believed so strongly.
(c) It is vastly divergent from his experience.
(d) It is so prejudicial in favor of the Jews.

5. 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) Gives it to his superior.
(c) Uses it to buy television time in the United States to spread the word of the plight of the Palestinians.
(d) Returns it to the village to begin construction on a library and community center.

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

7. What are the secular Jews worried about as far as Zionism is concerned?
(a) That it would become a terrorist organization.
(b) That it would make Judaism a culture rather than a religion.
(c) That it would commit as many wrongs as it rights.
(d) That it would isolate Jews from the world and increase anti-Semitism.

8. What does Elias think most Europeans believe about Palestine?
(a) That Palestine truly belongs to the Jews as God's chosen people.
(b) That Palestine was a unreclaimable desert.
(c) That Palestine needed more people.
(d) That the Jews move into an uninhabited land.

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

10. What does Elias think God desires?
(a) Justice.
(b) Reconciliation.
(c) A new way of thinking.
(d) A turning to God.

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

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

13. What does Elias hope will not happen?
(a) The press will not accept it as true.
(b) The Israeli government will ban it.
(c) The readers will not believe it.
(d) Readers will simply discuss it with no action.

14. What does the Responsible do when his support begins to erode?
(a) Attempts to turn others against Elias.
(b) Writes a letter to the Bishop about Elias.
(c) Moves.
(d) Goes to reconcile with Elias.

15. With what do the Palestinians still struggle?
(a) Anger.
(b) The need for validation.
(c) Basic survival.
(d) Their desire for revenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the conflict between Israel and Egypt at this time become known as?

2. What happens to a village as a result of Elias' intercession?

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

4. Who are "blood brothers" in Elias's eyes?

5. What is the Jewish state like in 1967?

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