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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 is Elias on a warm afternoon in 1947?
(a) In Beruit.
(b) In Constantinople.
(c) Sitting high in his favorite tree.
(d) In Jerusalem.

2. What do the seminarians believe the Zionist's mission should be?
(a) Make peace with the native Palestinians and give back the land the Zionist stole.
(b) Clear Palestine of potential terrorists.
(c) Eschew violence.
(d) Convert to Christianity.

3. What does Elias decide he has to do about his people's struggles?
(a) He has to let them go.
(b) He has to work to right the wrongs with violence if necessary.
(c) He has to put the struggles of his people into the perspective of God's plan.
(d) He has to work to right the wrongs in court legally.

4. What of the Bible is a mystery to Elias?
(a) The story of Issac and Essau.
(b) The Beatitudes.
(c) The story of Joseph.
(d) The miracles of healing by Jesus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is David Ben Gurion?

2. What is frustrating to Elias?

3. Where is Biram?

4. Who is Elias's hero?

5. What do the Christians in Biram believe about the Jews?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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