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

2. What does Elias realize in church on his first day in Nazareth?
(a) He feels at home.
(b) God really is not involved in human's squabbles.
(c) He is not to become a lawyer.
(d) He is not to become a priest.

3. What does the second Supreme Court rule?
(a) That the village of Biram no longer belongs to the original inhabitants.
(b) That the village of Biram is to be returned to the original inhabitants.
(c) That the village of Biram is to be divided between the Jews and the original inhabitants.
(d) They still do not make a ruling.

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

5. What does the Israeli Supreme Court rule when the elders of Biram file a petition for permission to return to their homes?
(a) It is granted.
(b) It is shelved until the Jewish state is more stable.
(c) It is put into limbo in the hopes the elders of Biram will give up.
(d) It is denied.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elias decide to do at the end of the chapter "Singled out?"

2. How do the Zionist soldiers act?

3. What soldiers would be coming to the village?

4. What happens when the British withdraw from an area?

5. Where do Elias and his friend Faraj decide to go?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who declared Israel an independent state in May 1948 and then what did he do? How did the world respond?

2. What did the Bishop suggest for Elias?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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