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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. Where is Biram?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Arabia.
(c) Palestine.
(d) Iran.
2. What of the Bible is a mystery to Elias?
(a) The miracles of healing by Jesus.
(b) The Beatitudes.
(c) The story of Issac and Essau.
(d) The story of Joseph.
3. Who of Elias's family is taken by the Irgun?
(a) Only his one older brother.
(b) His father and three older brothers.
(c) Only both his older brothers.
(d) Only his father.
4. What is Elias beginning to understand?
(a) The pain of Jews.
(b) The joy of knowledge.
(c) The pain of having no religion.
(d) The joy of comradeship.
5. How does Elias feel about school?
(a) He loves it.
(b) He hates it.
(c) He is indifferent to school.
(d) He believes school and the church are too intertwined.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Elias immersed in at his new home?
2. What does Elias wonder as he empathizes with the Jews and their treatment by the Third Reich?
3. Where does Elias go?
4. What was increasingly happening to non-Jewish Palestinians?
5. What New Testament passage still disturbs Michael?
Short Essay Questions
1. What type of journal did Elias begin when he was at school? How long did this journal last?
2. Who declared Israel an independent state in May 1948 and then what did he do? How did the world respond?
3. How did the Beatitudes appear to Elias and why?
4. Who was taken out of Gish from Elias's family and who was left?
5. Who are the Zionist soldiers battling in Palestine in the late 1940's and what is the result of those battles?
6. With what was Elias suspected of doing by Zionist soldiers and what was the final outcome of that accusation?
7. What events of the 1960's colored Elias's view of the church and why?
8. What would a current student of the Middle East find strange about Palestine in the late 1940's?
9. What did the Bishop suggest for Elias?
10. What did Elias begin to do after so many people were taken from the village of Gish? What did he believe about the situation?
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