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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Elias decide to do?
(a) Leave.
(b) Make the church interdenominational.
(c) Let the groups work things out among themselves.
(d) Rebuild the church.

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

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

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

7. What does Elias expect of the Jews?
(a) That they accept a broader definition of who is God's children.
(b) That they would see how they had become as those who persecuted them were.
(c) That they would be fair.
(d) That they would have more compassion.

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

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

10. Why does Elias go to talk with the Roman Catholic sisters in Nazareth?
(a) To ask for advice.
(b) To ask them to talk to the Bishop who sent him to Ibillin.
(c) To learn something about social services.
(d) To enlist help.

11. What does Israel do in retaliation?
(a) Appeals to the United Nations.
(b) Executes any Egyptian citizens found in Jerusalem.
(c) Sends thousand of Palestinian refugees into Egypt.
(d) Bombs Egypt and other Arab nations's ports.

12. How long does Elias vow he will stay in Ibillin?
(a) One month.
(b) One year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Three months.

13. What starts appearing at the door to Elias' residence?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Young children to ask him about Jesus.
(c) Materials to make his place more comfortable.
(d) Daily food gifts.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elias ask of his congregation?

2. What are Elias's efforts in Ibillin not hugely successful?

3. How does Elias say terrorism is often redefined as?

4. Who is Thomas Herzl?

5. How does Elias feel about the situation with the Palestinians?

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