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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 think most Europeans believe about Palestine?
(a) That Palestine was a unreclaimable desert.
(b) That Palestine needed more people.
(c) That the Jews move into an uninhabited land.
(d) That Palestine truly belongs to the Jews as God's chosen people.

2. For what does Elias receive numerous offers?
(a) Legal assistance.
(b) Numerous jobs in every sector.
(c) University teaching positions.
(d) Citizenship in other countries.

3. Who begins the process of unity?
(a) Two cousins.
(b) Elias and the Responsible.
(c) Two brothers.
(d) A father and son.

4. How long does Elias vow he will stay in Ibillin?
(a) Six months.
(b) One year.
(c) One month.
(d) Three months.

5. About what is the United Nations pressuring Israel?
(a) To start looking for a homeland that is truly uninhabited.
(b) To make peace with the Arab nations.
(c) Allowing the native villagers back in their lands or compensate them.
(d) To form two nations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is killed at Sabra and Shatila?

2. Of what are those who are killed accused?

3. What event greatly increases support for the Zionist movement in Europe after WWII?

4. What percentage of non-Jewish communities existed in Palestine at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1917?

5. What does the happenings at Sabra and Shatila tell Elias?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does he consider the conflict in Israel so horrific?

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

3. What happened in another village because of Elias's intercession? What did Elias do when he was given a gift?

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

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

6. What does Chacour call upon the nations who war and why does he see it as an insult to God?

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

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

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

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

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