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

2. What was increasingly happening to non-Jewish Palestinians?
(a) They were cooperating with the Zionist out of fear.
(b) They were being herded into concentration camps.
(c) They were living peacefully alongside the Zionist.
(d) They were becoming refugees in their own land.

3. What action supersedes other problems in the Middle East?
(a) The establishment of a quota of Arab citizens in Israel.
(b) The establishment of the PLO.
(c) The invasion of the Sinai Peninsula by Israel.
(d) The Russian aggression in Europe.

4. For what is the purchase?
(a) An important visitor.
(b) For use in the new orchad his dad just buys.
(c) For traveling to Jerusalem.
(d) The birth of his new sister.

5. What happens when the British withdraw from an area?
(a) Zionist push all non-Jewish Palestinians out.
(b) The land is vacant and anyone can make a claim.
(c) Zionist set up a ruling counsel of Jews, Christians and Muslims.
(d) The Arabs push all Jewish Palestinians out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the residents of Palestine hope?

2. What does Elias wonder about happiness?

3. When do the men who were taken by the Irgun return?

4. How did the native Jewish inhabitants feel about the actions of the Zionists?

5. Where are Zionist soldiers winning against the British?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. With what was Elias suspected of doing by Zionist soldiers and what was the final outcome of that accusation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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