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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 hope will be the action of those reading his book?
(a) They will petition their governments to intervene.
(b) They will have a better understanding of the Palestinian situation.
(c) They will pray for all involved.
(d) They will actively work for justice.

2. Why is the lay person in charge of the church in Ibillin angry?
(a) That Elias is not in favor of a violent solution to regaining their lands.
(b) That they have not sent a new priest to Ibillin until now.
(c) That the former priest leaves and takes all the valuables belonging to the church with him.
(d) That they send such a young priest.

3. 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.

4. What percentage of non-Jewish communities existed in Palestine at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1917?
(a) 55.
(b) 92.
(c) 66.
(d) 25.

5. What is the state of the physical church building?
(a) In ruins.
(b) There never was a church building there.
(c) It is fine but quite filthy.
(d) It is kept up quite well.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what are the Palestinian youth turning?

2. What is Ibillin?

3. What does Elias ask of Westerners?

4. Which one of Jesus' sayings comes to Elias' mind at the end of this chapter?

5. With what is Elias temporarily elated?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did Elias feel after researching the history of Palestine and Jews and why did he feel that way?

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

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