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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tough Miracles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Palestine when Elias returns home?
(a) Two different countries, which are Israel and Palestine.
(b) It is still called Palestine, though there is a movement to rename it.
(c) Israel.
(d) Three different countries, which are Israel, Palestine and Golan.

2. What do the Christians who remain in Jerusalem continue to believe?
(a) That Jesus is a human with godlike qualities.
(b) That Jesus is God.
(c) That God designated Jerusalem as the city of salvation.
(d) That Jesus is a metaphor for how one should live.

3. What does Elias wonder about happiness?
(a) Why his friends who are not religious were happy.
(b) How one could feel happy in poverty or grief.
(c) How a god that is unseen can give you happiness.
(d) Why happiness is not important.

4. What event greatly increases support for the Zionist movement in Europe after WWII?
(a) The legal actions of the British parliament.
(b) The bombing of a Jewish settlement by Palestinians.
(c) Nothing; they were already strongly supportive.
(d) The holocaust.

5. How did the native Jewish inhabitants feel about the actions of the Zionists?
(a) Shocked.
(b) They expressed no reaction.
(c) Supportive.
(d) Indifferent as long as they were left alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Elias's father explain to his children?

2. Why is Elias often punished at his new school?

3. Who acts as a little dictator?

4. Who begins the process of unity?

5. What action supersedes other problems in the Middle East?

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