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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 New Testament passage still disturbs Michael?
(a) The parable of the loaves and fishes.
(b) The Beatitudes.
(c) Revelation.
(d) The parable of the rich man and the camel.

2. What is one challenge Elias and Faraj encounter in Paris?
(a) They were young and did not find their new home challenging.
(b) The language.
(c) The customs.
(d) The size of the city.

3. Where is Biram?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Palestine.
(c) Arabia.
(d) Iran.

4. What contributes to the poor reputation of the Palestinians?
(a) The propaganda that the Zionists spread.
(b) The Fedayeen groups.
(c) The court cases that were going against them.
(d) The torture and maiming of Zionist soldiers by the terrorists Palestinians.

5. What does Faraj say is the problem with Western theology?
(a) That it is exclusive.
(b) The belief that God is impersonal.
(c) The idea that man is equal to God.
(d) The idea of man being the center of all things.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do the British withdraw from Palestine completely?

2. What does the second Supreme Court rule?

3. What is the general view of Palestinians by Europeans?

4. Why do they end up in Paris?

5. What does Elias see in Jesus?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were the three important principles Elias learned from his father as stated in the section, Treasures of the Heart?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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