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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. What was increasingly happening to non-Jewish Palestinians?
(a) They were living peacefully alongside the Zionist.
(b) They were cooperating with the Zionist out of fear.
(c) They were being herded into concentration camps.
(d) They were becoming refugees in their own land.

2. How does Elias feel about school?
(a) He loves it.
(b) He believes school and the church are too intertwined.
(c) He is indifferent to school.
(d) He hates it.

3. How did the native Jewish inhabitants feel about the actions of the Zionists?
(a) They expressed no reaction.
(b) Supportive.
(c) Shocked.
(d) Indifferent as long as they were left alone.

4. What do Elias and Faraj find lacking in their rather clinical studies?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) A sense of awe.
(c) Depth of knowledge by the teachers.
(d) A sense of community.

5. Where do the children in Biram attend school?
(a) In the village square.
(b) In the church.
(c) In a small city about twenty kilometers away.
(d) In the neighboring town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What of the Bible is a mystery to Elias?

2. Since when has Palestine been under British rule?

3. What is the general view of Palestinians by Europeans?

4. What does Michael realize about Elias?

5. Why do the Zionist landowners employ native Palestinians?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did Elias become friends with at the orphanage and what happened when the two of them finished their studies there?

2. What did the Bishop suggest for Elias?

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

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

5. How did Elias and his friend find the studies in Paris?

6. What did the new Jewish landowners find out about their land and what did they do about it?

7. What happens in Palestine when the United Nations steps into the conflict?

8. What would a current student of the Middle East find strange about Palestine in the late 1940's?

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

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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