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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 action must the Jews take according to Elias?
(a) Right the wrongs and return stolen land.
(b) Find another way to survive rather than taking what is not theirs.
(c) Stop taking land.
(d) Stop believing everyone hates them.

2. What leads to violence between the Zionist and native Palestinians during the 1930s?
(a) Increased immigration of Jews into Palestine.
(b) Wholesale slaughter of native Palestinians by the Zionist.
(c) The other Arab countries sending in small groups of men to help the native Palestinians.
(d) Illegal seizure of lands by the Zionist.

3. Who comes back with Elias from Nazareth?
(a) No one.
(b) His youngest sister.
(c) Three Roman Catholic sisters..
(d) His youngest sister and mother.

4. What does Elias learn when he is giving a speech in Germany?
(a) His father is killed supposedly as a PLO member.
(b) Two of his brothers are killed supposedly as PLO members.
(c) Hundreds of refugees in two Lebanese camps are massacred.
(d) His sister has died.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elias do with a monetary gift from a grateful village?

2. Who rules Palestine until the end of WWI?

3. How does Elias say the Jews justify taking Palestinian land?

4. Who is killed at Sabra and Shatila?

5. What happens to a village as a result of Elias' intercession?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Elias Chacour hope about his book?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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