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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 isolate Jews from the world and increase anti-Semitism.
(c) That it would make Judaism a culture rather than a religion.
(d) That it would commit as many wrongs as it rights.

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

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

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

5. What leads to violence between the Zionist and native Palestinians during the 1930s?
(a) Wholesale slaughter of native Palestinians by the Zionist.
(b) Increased immigration of Jews into Palestine.
(c) Illegal seizure of lands by the Zionist.
(d) The other Arab countries sending in small groups of men to help the native Palestinians.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What is the Zionists' reply to the argument that wherever they establish a State of Israel, there would already be people living there?
(a) They would give the people more-than-fair prices for their land and help them relocate.
(b) They would negotiate peaceful co-existance.
(c) They would force resettlement of those peoples.
(d) They said God would take care of the problem.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Jewish state like in 1967?

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

3. What do the sisters start for the children?

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

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

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