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

2. What do the Irgun ultimately carry out?
(a) A peaceful solution.
(b) A short war to show their power.
(c) A mandate to resolve the Palestinian issue in a fair way.
(d) Genocide.

3. What story does Elias's father explain to his children?
(a) About the effects of the last large earthquake in the region.
(b) About the reason the people want the British to continue to rule their country.
(c) About the way the British obtained rule of the area.
(d) About Hitler and the Holocaust in Europe.

4. What does Elias's father purchase?
(a) A donkey.
(b) A camel.
(c) A lamb.
(d) A bison.

5. To whom does Michael speak?
(a) The Church Bishop.
(b) God.
(c) The leaders of the new Arab Palestinian movement.
(d) The Zionist soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Elias feel about what happens?

2. What sort of stories does Elias's mother teach him?

3. Where is Biram?

4. What does Faraj say is the problem with Western theology?

5. What soldiers would be coming to the village?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did the Beatitudes appear to Elias and why?

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

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

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

7. What type of journal did Elias begin when he was at school? How long did this journal last?

8. What type of study did Elias and his friend study at the seminary and how did Elias feel about it?

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

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

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