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

2. How does the family decide to greet the soldiers?
(a) Welcoming.
(b) Defiance.
(c) Fear.
(d) Resignation.

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

4. What is Elias beginning to understand?
(a) The pain of having no religion.
(b) The joy of comradeship.
(c) The joy of knowledge.
(d) The pain of Jews.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Elias's father explain to his children?

2. What do the residents of Palestine hope?

3. What is happening in the new Jewish government?

4. How do the scholars study the Bible?

5. Who is Elias's hero?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Elias's teachers view him at the seminary and why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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