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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 Elias and his friend Faraj decide to go?
(a) To Biram.
(b) To England.
(c) To the United States.
(d) To Jerusalem.

2. What does the United Nations do in the conflict?
(a) Divide the land fairly with fertile land to each major group.
(b) Divide the land giving the fertile land to the Zionist.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Give the Zionist eighty percent of all the land.

3. What is Elias immersed in at his new home?
(a) The study of law.
(b) Biblical study.
(c) Learning about the religion of the Jews.
(d) Learning all about the history of Palestine.

4. How do the scholars study the Bible?
(a) Doggedly.
(b) With joy and curiousity.
(c) With reverence for God.
(d) In strictly intellectual and historical terms.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who of Elias's family is taken by the Irgun?

3. What does the second Supreme Court rule?

4. What of the Bible is a mystery to Elias?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the Bishop suggest for Elias?

3. What happens in Palestine when the United Nations steps into the conflict?

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

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

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

7. Who did Elias become friends with at the orphanage and what happened when the two of them finished their studies there?

8. What would a current student of the Middle East find strange about Palestine in the late 1940's?

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

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

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