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

2. To what are the Palestinian youth turning?
(a) Drugs, alcohol, and crime.
(b) Terrorists.
(c) Education so they can hold their own against the Jews.
(d) Suicide.

3. Why is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so horrible in Elias' eyes?
(a) It involves the death of women and children so often.
(b) It is based on greed.
(c) Because it is blood brothers fighting against each other.
(d) It is based on a false idea of God's will.

4. What is Palestine when Elias returns home?
(a) It is still called Palestine, though there is a movement to rename it.
(b) Two different countries, which are Israel and Palestine.
(c) Israel.
(d) Three different countries, which are Israel, Palestine and Golan.

5. What does Elias talk the sisters into doing?
(a) Visitin Muslim women.
(b) Staying permanently.
(c) One of them going to nursing school.
(d) Cooking a noonday meal for any who are hungry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elias expect of the Jews?

2. What does Elias ask of his congregation?

3. Who begins the process of unity?

4. Who is killed at Sabra and Shatila?

5. What is Bishop Joseph Raya determined to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What massacre was Elias told about that made Elias decide not to leave Israel?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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