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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 do the Christians who remain in Jerusalem continue to believe?
(a) That Jesus is God.
(b) That Jesus is a metaphor for how one should live.
(c) That Jesus is a human with godlike qualities.
(d) That God designated Jerusalem as the city of salvation.

2. What do the Christians in Biram believe about the Jews?
(a) Their lives are bound up with the Jewish people.
(b) They are heretics.
(c) They are the crucifiers of Jesus.
(d) They have their own ways and have no connection to the Chrisitans.

3. What does Elias begin to write?
(a) Letters to the leaders of Palestine.
(b) A fictionalized account of the horrors of Zionism.
(c) A book about a boy and how he finds peace.
(d) Letters to Jesus.

4. What does Elias wonder as he empathizes with the Jews and their treatment by the Third Reich?
(a) How the Jews who went so meekly to their deaths could be the same ethnic group as the Zionists that murder hundreds.
(b) Why, when they had been so persecuted, they would choose to exhibit the same behaviors toward others in Israel.
(c) Why the Jews did not rise up in mass and fight.
(d) Why the good, average Germans allowed it to happen.

5. Who is Katoub?
(a) Elias's youngest sister.
(b) Elias's wife.
(c) Elias's mother.
(d) The village pastor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Elias go after his initial education?

2. What New Testament passage still disturbs Michael?

3. How does Elias feel about what happens?

4. Where is Elias on a warm afternoon in 1947?

5. What does Elias realize that warm afternoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was taken out of Gish from Elias's family and who was left?

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

3. What did the Zionist soldiers tell the people in Elias's hometown and how did they respond?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who are the Zionist soldiers battling in Palestine in the late 1940's and what is the result of those battles?

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