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

2. What does Elias hope will not happen?
(a) Readers will simply discuss it with no action.
(b) The Israeli government will ban it.
(c) The readers will not believe it.
(d) The press will not accept it as true.

3. What does Elias ask of Westerners?
(a) Ask hard questions of Israel.
(b) Stop thinking that Arabs are the only terrorists in the situation.
(c) Search for a means that both sides can win.
(d) Stay out of the conflict.

4. How does Elias say the Jews justify taking Palestinian land?
(a) Because they think the Palestinians do not deserve so much land.
(b) Because they must live somewhere.
(c) Because God gave them the land thousands of years ago.
(d) On the basis of the wrongs they have suffered in the past.

5. With what do the Palestinians still struggle?
(a) The need for validation.
(b) Anger.
(c) Their desire for revenge.
(d) Basic survival.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Elias go to talk with the Roman Catholic sisters in Nazareth?

3. What is Elias read to do?

4. What is Bishop Joseph Raya determined to do?

5. What does Elias establish in Ibillin?

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

3. What did Elias decide to do following his initial efforts in the church at Ibillin?

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

5. What does Elias Chacour hope about his book?

6. What did Elias finally do in the church at Ibillin and what was the result?

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

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

9. What was Bishop Raya's background and what was he determined to do?

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

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