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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 does Elias wonder about happiness?
(a) Why his friends who are not religious were happy.
(b) Why happiness is not important.
(c) How a god that is unseen can give you happiness.
(d) How one could feel happy in poverty or grief.

2. Who of Elias's family is taken by the Irgun?
(a) Only his one older brother.
(b) His father and three older brothers.
(c) Only his father.
(d) Only both his older brothers.

3. Why are Michael and his brothers outraged?
(a) That they get paid a pittance.
(b) That the Jewish landowner does not even live on the land.
(c) That they are employed on land that they own.
(d) That the orchards have been cared for so poorly.

4. Who is Katoub?
(a) The village pastor.
(b) Elias's youngest sister.
(c) Elias's mother.
(d) Elias's wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michael want for Elias?

2. How do the Zionist act after the British leave?

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

4. Where is Biram?

5. What is one challenge Elias and Faraj encounter in Paris?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was Elias's main struggle with understanding Jews?

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

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

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

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

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

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