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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Israeli government do in response to Elias' growing fame?
(a) Arrest Elias.
(b) Try to limit access to villages that Elias has helped.
(c) Confine Elias to Ibillin.
(d) Decide to force Elias to leave the Middle East.

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

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

4. Of what does a fig tree remind Elias?
(a) Jesus's curse of a tree in the New Testament.
(b) His time as a child climbing the tree to get closer to God.
(c) His father working on the orchards.
(d) The idea of all humans being grafted together in a brotherhood by God.

5. Who acts as a little dictator?
(a) The Greek Orthodox priest.
(b) The Responsible.
(c) The one village elder still living.
(d) The Wife of the Responsible.

6. What seems to be the goal of both sides of the Palestinian conflict?
(a) Obliteration of one another.
(b) Justice.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Peace.

7. Who is killed at Sabra and Shatila?
(a) Elias' best friend.
(b) Elias' mother.
(c) Elias' sister.
(d) Hundreds of refugees.

8. What does Elias hope will be the action of those reading his book?
(a) They will petition their governments to intervene.
(b) They will pray for all involved.
(c) They will actively work for justice.
(d) They will have a better understanding of the Palestinian situation.

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

10. 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) Three new Responsible positions.
(d) A new project to keep the villagers busy.

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

12. What does the happenings at Sabra and Shatila tell Elias?
(a) He no longer believes in God and is ready to leave the priest hood.
(b) It is hopeless in the Middle East and he should not return.
(c) His work is not finished in Israel.
(d) God no longer cares about the world he made.

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

14. 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 said God would take care of the problem.
(c) They would force resettlement of those peoples.
(d) They would negotiate peaceful co-existance.

15. What does the Bishop tell Elias?
(a) That he is to increase the population of the sisters if possible.
(b) That he is to take a vacation.
(c) That he is to go to Hebrew University.
(d) That he is to take on an assistant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What leads to violence between the Zionist and native Palestinians during the 1930s?

2. What does Elias ask of Westerners?

3. Which one of Jesus' sayings comes to Elias' mind at the end of this chapter?

4. How do further land reforms harm the Palestinians?

5. With what is Elias temporarily elated?

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