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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Work, For the Night is Coming.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elias decide to do at the end of the chapter "Singled out?"
(a) To move to the United States.
(b) To convert to Judaism.
(c) To find a peaceful way to respond to the situation.
(d) To fight as a terrorist.

2. Who of Elias's family is taken by the Irgun?
(a) His father and three older brothers.
(b) Only his father.
(c) Only both his older brothers.
(d) Only his one older brother.

3. Who is Thomas Herzl?
(a) The leader of a faction of European Jews who want all Jews to move to Palestine.
(b) The Zionist leader to whom Elias asks about Zionism.
(c) The leader of them moderate Jews opposed to Zionism.
(d) The founder of the Zionist movement.

4. Who is Katoub?
(a) Elias's mother.
(b) The village pastor.
(c) Elias's wife.
(d) Elias's youngest sister.

5. Why do the Zionist landowners employ native Palestinians?
(a) They have to by law.
(b) They do not have enough Jews to keep the land cultivated.
(c) They feel guilty for taking the land away from the native Palestinians.
(d) They are unschooled in the proper cultivation of the orchards.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is Elias temporarily elated?

2. Why are Michael and his brothers outraged?

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

4. What does the Israeli government do in response to Elias' growing fame?

5. With what do the Palestinians still struggle?

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