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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elias do when he leaves Germany?
(a) Leaves the priesthood.
(b) Emigrates to the United States.
(c) Returns to the Middle East.
(d) Accepts a teaching post at Oxford.

2. Of what does a fig tree remind Elias?
(a) The idea of all humans being grafted together in a brotherhood by God.
(b) His father working on the orchards.
(c) His time as a child climbing the tree to get closer to God.
(d) Jesus's curse of a tree in the New Testament.

3. Of what are those who are killed accused?
(a) Being part of the PLO.
(b) Being of the wrong religion.
(c) Being of the wrong ethnic group.
(d) Nothing.

4. What is Bishop Joseph Raya determined to do?
(a) Teach peace instead of violence.
(b) Get the word of god out to all peoples.
(c) Bring justice for the Palestinians.
(d) Get the Fedayeen to change tactics.

5. What does Elias ask of Westerners?
(a) Stay out of the conflict.
(b) Search for a means that both sides can win.
(c) Stop thinking that Arabs are the only terrorists in the situation.
(d) Ask hard questions of Israel.

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

7. Into what does the Fedayeen unite?
(a) The country of Palestine.
(b) They have too many factions to unite.
(c) The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO.)
(d) The United Palestine Liberation Militia (UPLM.)

8. Who is involved in the problem Elias learns about while he is in Germany?
(a) Lebanese Christians and Israeli soldiers.
(b) The regular Israeli soldiers conduct the killings.
(c) A banned sect of Irgun members.
(d) They do not know.

9. What act by the Fedayeen worsens the situation terribly for Palestinians?
(a) Killing Jewish athletes in Munich.
(b) Declaring a state of war.
(c) Setting off a bomb in a Jewish school and killing many children.
(d) Killing the Prime Minister.

10. Why does Elias go to talk with the Roman Catholic sisters in Nazareth?
(a) To ask for advice.
(b) To enlist help.
(c) To learn something about social services.
(d) To ask them to talk to the Bishop who sent him to Ibillin.

11. What seems to be the goal of both sides of the Palestinian conflict?
(a) Obliteration of one another.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Peace.
(d) Justice.

12. About what is the United Nations pressuring Israel?
(a) To make peace with the Arab nations.
(b) To form two nations.
(c) To start looking for a homeland that is truly uninhabited.
(d) Allowing the native villagers back in their lands or compensate them.

13. What does the Responsible do when his support begins to erode?
(a) Goes to reconcile with Elias.
(b) Writes a letter to the Bishop about Elias.
(c) Attempts to turn others against Elias.
(d) Moves.

14. With what do the Palestinians still struggle?
(a) Anger.
(b) Their desire for revenge.
(c) Basic survival.
(d) The need for validation.

15. With whom do the European Zionists enter in an alliance?
(a) Lord Nothrup.
(b) The Duke of Wellingham.
(c) The Prime Minister of Britian.
(d) Lord Balfour.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so horrible in Elias' eyes?

2. What does Elias hope will not happen?

3. Who comes back with Elias from Nazareth?

4. What does Elias realize is making matters worse in Ibillin?

5. What percentage of non-Jewish communities existed in Palestine at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1917?

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