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

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

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

4. What does Elias realize that warm afternoon?
(a) That his youngest sister has just been born.
(b) That something important is about to happen.
(c) That an earthquake just shook the region.
(d) That his father is finally returning from England that day.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elias wonder as he empathizes with the Jews and their treatment by the Third Reich?

2. What does the United Nations do in the conflict?

3. Where does Elias travel for a retreat?

4. What does Elias see in Jesus?

5. Where is Biram?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Elias begin to do after so many people were taken from the village of Gish? What did he believe about the situation?

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

4. What did the Bishop suggest for Elias?

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

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

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

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

9. What was Elias's main struggle with understanding Jews?

10. Under whose rule was Palestine since the 1930's, what kind of people was the population, how did they get along and how did the residents feel about themselves after World War II?

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