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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what does Elias receive numerous offers?
(a) Numerous jobs in every sector.
(b) University teaching positions.
(c) Legal assistance.
(d) Citizenship in other countries.

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

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

4. What does Elias realize is making matters worse in Ibillin?
(a) The misunderstanding between the Christians and the Muslims.
(b) His own anger and lack of forgiveness to the Zionists.
(c) The Jewish settlement starting within a few kilometers of the village.
(d) The required billeting of Jewish military forces in the village.

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

6. Why is the lay person in charge of the church in Ibillin angry?
(a) That the former priest leaves and takes all the valuables belonging to the church with him.
(b) That they send such a young priest.
(c) That Elias is not in favor of a violent solution to regaining their lands.
(d) That they have not sent a new priest to Ibillin until now.

7. What does Elias show at the opening of each community center?
(a) A film documentary about the Holocaust.
(b) The film called The Hiding Place.
(c) The film called The Diary of Anne Frank.
(d) The film called Schlinder's List.

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

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

10. How do further land reforms harm the Palestinians?
(a) The reforms take away more and more arable land.
(b) They forbid Palestinians to hold title to any land.
(c) They forbid Palestianians to own more than 1/4 an acre for any reason.
(d) They forbid any more than three families to live adjacent to each other.

11. What does Elias establish in Ibillin?
(a) A political action center for the promotion of peace.
(b) A youth camp for all faiths.
(c) A museum about the holocaust.
(d) A safe zone for displaced children.

12. About what is the United Nations pressuring Israel?
(a) To make peace with the Arab nations.
(b) To start looking for a homeland that is truly uninhabited.
(c) To form two nations.
(d) Allowing the native villagers back in their lands or compensate them.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elias expect of the Jews?

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

3. What does the Responsible do when his support begins to erode?

4. What does Elias ask of Westerners?

5. Who verbally attacks Elias?

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