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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 expect of the Jews?
(a) That they would see how they had become as those who persecuted them were.
(b) That they would be fair.
(c) That they would have more compassion.
(d) That they accept a broader definition of who is God's children.

2. What does the conflict between Israel and Egypt at this time become known as?
(a) The six days' war.
(b) The 100 days' war.
(c) The war of the prophets.
(d) The 30 days' war.

3. What does Egypt do in retaliation for the Israeli refusal to do as the United Nations asks?
(a) Attacks Jerusalem.
(b) Attacks the outlying Jewish settlements.
(c) Tries to assassinate the Prime Minister.
(d) Blocks Israel's one port.

4. What is disturbing to Elias about the Western Europeans' perspectives on the Palestinian issue?
(a) It is so prejudicial in favor of the Jews.
(b) It is based on so little truth but is believed so strongly.
(c) It is vastly divergent from his experience.
(d) It is so inaccurate.

5. How does Elias feel about the situation with the Palestinians?
(a) Hopeless.
(b) Optimistic that the Jewish government will start being fair.
(c) Overwhelmed.
(d) Confused.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Elias say terrorism is often redefined as?

2. Why is the lay person in charge of the church in Ibillin angry?

3. What does the Bishop tell Elias?

4. Who are "blood brothers" in Elias's eyes?

5. What action must the Jews take according to Elias?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Elias ask of the Jew, Westerners, and Arabs?

4. What assignment did Elias receive following his ordination and what was his first encounter like there?

5. What does Chacour call upon the nations who war and why does he see it as an insult to God?

6. What was the reality about the Palestinians that Elias had to face in the last 1960's?

7. What was one of Elias's most acclaimed accomplishments mentioned in the chapter "Work, For the Night is Coming?"

8. What was Elias doing when he knew what work remained for him and what was that work?

9. What was Chacour ready to do in the One Link chapter and why didn't he?

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

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