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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 is Ibillin?
(a) A town where much fighting is occurring.
(b) The village to which Elais is assigned.
(c) The village where Elias's family now lives.
(d) The village closest to Biram.

2. What is Elias read to do?
(a) Join the fedayeen.
(b) File a large class-action suit.
(c) Leave Israel.
(d) Leave the priesthood.

3. What does Israel do in retaliation?
(a) Appeals to the United Nations.
(b) Bombs Egypt and other Arab nations's ports.
(c) Sends thousand of Palestinian refugees into Egypt.
(d) Executes any Egyptian citizens found in Jerusalem.

4. What does Elias decide to do?
(a) Let the groups work things out among themselves.
(b) Rebuild the church.
(c) Leave.
(d) Make the church interdenominational.

5. What event greatly increases support for the Zionist movement in Europe after WWII?
(a) The legal actions of the British parliament.
(b) Nothing; they were already strongly supportive.
(c) The bombing of a Jewish settlement by Palestinians.
(d) The holocaust.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Elias' increased fame help his people?

2. How are the native Palestinians treated?

3. Who is Thomas Herzl?

4. What does Elias establish in Ibillin?

5. What percentage of non-Jewish communities existed in Palestine at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1917?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Bishop have an appointment with Elias and what was Elias's feelings about it?

2. What did Elias see as the view the Western world had of the Jews and a homeland?

3. What happened in another village because of Elias's intercession? What did Elias do when he was given a gift?

4. What did Elias continue to do after Palm Sunday and what did the sisters do?

5. What did more moderate Jews call for about the establishment of Israel and the Palestinian problem?

6. What had happened in Palestine by the time Elias returned there after his studies in Paris?

7. What type of personal epiphany did Elias have at Ibillin and what did he decide?

8. Why does he consider the conflict in Israel so horrific?

9. How was Palestine ruled until the end of World War I and then what happened?

10. What occurred during some of Elias's successes that set back the peace movement?

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