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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. Of what are those who are killed accused?
(a) Being of the wrong religion.
(b) Being of the wrong ethnic group.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Being part of the PLO.

2. After his ordination, what does Elias receive?
(a) A choice of things to do.
(b) His inheritance from his father.
(c) His first assignment.
(d) A ring symbolizing his new life.

3. What does Elias do when he leaves Germany?
(a) Emigrates to the United States.
(b) Leaves the priesthood.
(c) Accepts a teaching post at Oxford.
(d) Returns to the Middle East.

4. What is Biram like?
(a) There is no evidence that there has ever been a village there.
(b) Thriving.
(c) Abandoned.
(d) A few families are still living there.

5. Who is kept from Sabra and Shatila?
(a) The families of the people in Sabra and Shatila.
(b) Just UN peacekeepers; the press is allowed.
(c) The press and UN peacekeepers.
(d) Just the press; UN peacekeepers are allowed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the conflict between Israel and Egypt at this time become known as?

3. What does Israel do in retaliation?

4. Upon what does Elias embark?

5. What are the secular Jews worried about as far as Zionism is concerned?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Biram like when Elias returned there from his time in Paris?

5. What does Elias first decide to do about the church in Ibillin? How does his efforts work?

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

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

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

9. What was the political and economic situation like in Israel in 1967?

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

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