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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the other seminarians feel about Palestine?
(a) They are appalled at the way the Zionist were slaughtering innocent people.
(b) They were divided in support of the Zionist and the native Palestinians.
(c) There was very little knowledge of what is happening in Palestine.
(d) They are wholly supportive of the Zionist movement.

2. What does Elias regret?
(a) He tries not to have regrets.
(b) Coming to Europe to experience a church that had become so meaningless.
(c) Not joining the fight to expel the Zionist from his village.
(d) Not letting his family know how much he loves them.

3. Why is Elias often punished at his new school?
(a) For refusing to do his school work.
(b) For aruging with the law professors.
(c) For breaking rules and disagreeing with doctrine.
(d) For aruging against the Zionist.

4. What does Elias realize that warm afternoon?
(a) That his youngest sister has just been born.
(b) That an earthquake just shook the region.
(c) That something important is about to happen.
(d) That his father is finally returning from England that day.

5. Where is Elias on a warm afternoon in 1947?
(a) In Jerusalem.
(b) In Constantinople.
(c) Sitting high in his favorite tree.
(d) In Beruit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Israel heed the United States's wishes?

2. What does Elias decide he has to do about his people's struggles?

3. What are the Christians called who remain in Jerusalem?

4. How does Elias feel about what happens?

5. What do the Christians who remain in Jerusalem continue to believe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Elias see in Jesus and how did he feel about Jesus? How did Elias see his interaction with Jesus?

2. What did Elias begin to do after so many people were taken from the village of Gish? What did he believe about the situation?

3. What did Elias' father explain about the Jews coming to the town?

4. Under whose rule was Palestine since the 1930's, what kind of people was the population, how did they get along and how did the residents feel about themselves after World War II?

5. What were the three important principles Elias learned from his father as stated in the section, Treasures of the Heart?

6. What did Elias realize about serving God as he neared graduation from seminary?

7. What did a second Supreme Court rule about the town of Biram and what happened after that ruling?

8. With what was Elias suspected of doing by Zionist soldiers and what was the final outcome of that accusation?

9. How did the other seminarians in Paris where Elias went to farther his education view the Palestinian situation and Palestinians in general?

10. How did Elias feel about school and where else did he learn what he considered important?

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