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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 Michael realize about Elias?
(a) That he is in danger of becoming an activist.
(b) That he is more spiritually oriented than the other children.
(c) That he needs a purpose.
(d) That he needs more activity than other children his age.

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

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

4. What does Michael not want Elias to believe?
(a) That he is being sent away because they have too many children to feed.
(b) That the only solution is war.
(c) That he is in a position of privilege.
(d) That the only solution is capituation.

5. What contributes to the poor reputation of the Palestinians?
(a) The Fedayeen groups.
(b) The torture and maiming of Zionist soldiers by the terrorists Palestinians.
(c) The propaganda that the Zionists spread.
(d) The court cases that were going against them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What New Testament passage still disturbs Michael?

3. Why does Israel heed the United States's wishes?

4. Who is Faraj Nakhleh?

5. Since when has Palestine been under British rule?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

8. What did Elias' father explain about the Jews coming to the town?

9. What did Elias see in Jesus and how did he feel about Jesus? How did Elias see his interaction with Jesus?

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

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