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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What soldiers would be coming to the village?
(a) German soldiers.
(b) French soldiers.
(c) American soldiers.
(d) Jewish soldiers.

2. What does the United Nations do in the conflict?
(a) Divide the land fairly with fertile land to each major group.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Give the Zionist eighty percent of all the land.
(d) Divide the land giving the fertile land to the Zionist.

3. Since when has Palestine been under British rule?
(a) The 1920's.
(b) The 1930's.
(c) Since 1902.
(d) The Late 1800's.

4. What does Faraj say is the problem with Western theology?
(a) The idea of man being the center of all things.
(b) The belief that God is impersonal.
(c) The idea that man is equal to God.
(d) That it is exclusive.

5. When do the men who were taken by the Irgun return?
(a) Never.
(b) Several years later.
(c) A week later.
(d) A few months later.

6. Of what does Elias's father make certain?
(a) That the children understand how to be Arabs as well as Christians.
(b) That the children know their heritage.
(c) That the children understand the reason for the visitors.
(d) That his children were well educated.

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

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

9. Where does Elias go?
(a) To Jerusalem to study.
(b) To an orphanage.
(c) To the United States.
(d) To Saudi Arabia to study.

10. What does Michael tell Elias is the purpose of his leaving?
(a) To learn the ways of the Jews in order to fight them.
(b) To learn law and then come and help his village.
(c) To get out of a dangerous situation.
(d) To work toward the reconciliation of enemies.

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

12. What does Michael want for Elias?
(a) A school for Elias.
(b) To find him a spot in the children's liberation movement.
(c) Permission for Elias to emmigrate to the United States.
(d) Permission for Elias to continue to care for his orchards.

13. How much are the Palestinians that are removed from their land compensated?
(a) One goat per acre.
(b) One cow per acre.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They are compensated fairly but they do not want to move.

14. What is Elias immersed in at his new home?
(a) Learning about the religion of the Jews.
(b) Learning all about the history of Palestine.
(c) The study of law.
(d) Biblical study.

15. Where are Zionist soldiers winning against the British?
(a) Southern Palestine.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) In the city of Jerusalem.
(d) On the border of Saudia Arabia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had the men been taken?

2. Why are Michael and his brothers outraged?

3. From whom does Elias learn the most?

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

5. What sort of stories does Elias's mother teach him?

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