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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 happens when the British withdraw from an area?
(a) Zionist push all non-Jewish Palestinians out.
(b) The land is vacant and anyone can make a claim.
(c) The Arabs push all Jewish Palestinians out.
(d) Zionist set up a ruling counsel of Jews, Christians and Muslims.

2. What was increasingly happening to non-Jewish Palestinians?
(a) They were living peacefully alongside the Zionist.
(b) They were becoming refugees in their own land.
(c) They were cooperating with the Zionist out of fear.
(d) They were being herded into concentration camps.

3. What is happening in the new Jewish government?
(a) Fighting among factions.
(b) Stricter laws being passed against the native Palestinians.
(c) They are setting up relocation facilities.
(d) They are consolidating their hold on the land.

4. Of what does Elias's father make certain?
(a) That his children were well educated.
(b) That the children know their heritage.
(c) That the children understand the reason for the visitors.
(d) That the children understand how to be Arabs as well as Christians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Elias and Faraj find lacking in their rather clinical studies?

2. What are the Christians called who remain in Jerusalem?

3. How did the native Jewish inhabitants feel about the actions of the Zionists?

4. What action supersedes other problems in the Middle East?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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