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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 happens to a village as a result of Elias' intercession?
(a) They decide to hold a peace rally.
(b) Nuns move in to provide health care, parenting instruction, and schooling to all children.
(c) They decide to send their children for education in Jewish schools.
(d) They decide to hold a forgiveness rally.

2. What does the happenings at Sabra and Shatila tell Elias?
(a) His work is not finished in Israel.
(b) God no longer cares about the world he made.
(c) He no longer believes in God and is ready to leave the priest hood.
(d) It is hopeless in the Middle East and he should not return.

3. What does Elias do on Palm Sunday?
(a) Confesses his sins to the congregation.
(b) Asks that those who do not want to be there leave.
(c) Asks the congregation to accept the Jewish settlement.
(d) Closes and chains the door to the church with everyone inside.

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

5. Who is involved in the problem Elias learns about while he is in Germany?
(a) They do not know.
(b) Lebanese Christians and Israeli soldiers.
(c) The regular Israeli soldiers conduct the killings.
(d) A banned sect of Irgun members.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. With whom do the European Zionists enter in an alliance?

4. What is Elias read to do?

5. Who mourned together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened about the massacre in question number 50?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What kind of church was Elias's first assignment and what did he vow?

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

9. What does Elias Chacour hope about his book?

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

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