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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Tabah, what does every house have even if the residents can not read?
(a) A Koran.
(b) A cookbook.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) A Bible.

2. What does Ibrahim say will happen to Ishmael when he catches him visiting the kibbutz?
(a) He will send him back to his mother.
(b) He will sell him.
(c) He will kill him.
(d) He will take him out of school.

3. How did the Jews respond to the first offer of a partitioned country?
(a) They counter-offered.
(b) They turned it down immediately.
(c) They agreed to it.
(d) They were not included in it.

4. Why does the British foreign secretary order a blockade of Palestine?
(a) To stop Jewish immigration.
(b) To protect their investments in the area.
(c) To stop Arabs from fleeing.
(d) To let more Jews into the area.

5. In Chapter 5, why do sirens go off near the Jewish settlement?
(a) Because someone has broken in.
(b) Because there is a storm.
(c) Because someone has stolen something.
(d) Because the Arabs attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, who is said to have "firmly established a new era and a new principle"?

2. Where does Heusseini have a villa?

3. Who does Ibrahim have find out why the Jews flooded the canals?

4. When Ibrahim watches the Jewish settlers build terraces for farming, what does he wonder?

5. Why is Ramiza treated poorly by the people of Tabah?

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