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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 wholly supportive of the Zionist movement.
(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 appalled at the way the Zionist were slaughtering innocent people.

2. What church does Elias Chacour's family attend?
(a) Jehovah's Witness.
(b) Seven Day Adventists.
(c) Hebrew Synagogue.
(d) Melkite Christian.

3. When do the men who were taken by the Irgun return?
(a) Several years later.
(b) A week later.
(c) A few months later.
(d) Never.

4. What does Faraj say is the problem with Western theology?
(a) The idea that man is equal to God.
(b) That it is exclusive.
(c) The idea of man being the center of all things.
(d) The belief that God is impersonal.

5. How much are the Palestinians that are removed from their land compensated?
(a) One cow per acre.
(b) Nothing.
(c) One goat per acre.
(d) They are compensated fairly but they do not want to move.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the second Supreme Court rule?

2. What does Elias realize that warm afternoon?

3. What does the Israeli Supreme Court rule when the elders of Biram file a petition for permission to return to their homes?

4. Where does Elias go?

5. What action supersedes other problems in the Middle East?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who declared Israel an independent state in May 1948 and then what did he do? How did the world respond?

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

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

4. What did Michael Chacour begin to realize about Elias and what did he do about it?

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

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

7. What events of the 1960's colored Elias's view of the church and why?

8. Where and when did Elias Chacour grow up and what did his family do for a living?

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

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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