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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 causes the villagers anxiety?
(a) That the earthquake may have relocated part of the artisian system.
(b) That it is soldiers and not civilians coming to the village.
(c) That the British will no longer help their village.
(d) That the British will take their improvements when they leave.

2. How do the Zionist soldiers act?
(a) Brusque and unfriendly.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Threatening.
(d) Extrememly hostile.

3. What is frustrating to Elias?
(a) That his village is still not rebuilt.
(b) An intellectual approach to Biblical study.
(c) That he is not home where he should be helping his father.
(d) That the Jewish Supreme Court still refuses to hear Michael's petition.

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

5. Where do many of the villagers go?
(a) Iran.
(b) Haifa.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) The United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the villagers return to Biram, what happens?

2. Where does Elias go after his initial education?

3. What does Faraj say is the problem with Western theology?

4. Where is Biram?

5. How does the family decide to greet the soldiers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Elias and his friend find the studies in Paris?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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