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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 is the Zionists' reply to the argument that wherever they establish a State of Israel, there would already be people living there?
(a) They would force resettlement of those peoples.
(b) They would negotiate peaceful co-existance.
(c) They said God would take care of the problem.
(d) They would give the people more-than-fair prices for their land and help them relocate.

2. With what is Elias temporarily elated?
(a) the march to the Knesset.
(b) The new rights awarded native Palestinians.
(c) The new awareness of the world to the Palestinian problem.
(d) The success of the villagers at Ibillin.

3. How do further land reforms harm the Palestinians?
(a) The reforms take away more and more arable land.
(b) They forbid any more than three families to live adjacent to each other.
(c) They forbid Palestianians to own more than 1/4 an acre for any reason.
(d) They forbid Palestinians to hold title to any land.

4. Where do many of the villagers go?
(a) Iran.
(b) The United States.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Haifa.

5. What does Elias do with a monetary gift from a grateful village?
(a) Gives it to his superior.
(b) Uses it to finance mediation between the villagers and a nearby Jewish settlement.
(c) Returns it to the village to begin construction on a library and community center.
(d) Uses it to buy television time in the United States to spread the word of the plight of the Palestinians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the biggest reason Michael Chacour is willing to work for someone else in his own orchards?

2. Which one of Jesus' sayings comes to Elias' mind at the end of this chapter?

3. What are the secular Jews worried about as far as Zionism is concerned?

4. What leads to violence between the Zionist and native Palestinians during the 1930s?

5. What act by the Fedayeen worsens the situation terribly for Palestinians?

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