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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the happenings at Sabra and Shatila tell Elias?
(a) God no longer cares about the world he made.
(b) It is hopeless in the Middle East and he should not return.
(c) His work is not finished in Israel.
(d) He no longer believes in God and is ready to leave the priest hood.

2. What does Elias do to better understand the situation in Palestine?
(a) Some research on his own.
(b) Meet with the elders of the native Palestinians.
(c) He has decided not to worry about the situation anymore as it is interfering with his studies.
(d) Talk with several Zionists in Paris.

3. What does Elias hold as he thinks of Sabra and Shatila?
(a) His dead friend's last letter.
(b) His dead sister's last letter.
(c) A dove to release.
(d) His dead mother's necklace.

4. Who acts as a little dictator?
(a) The Wife of the Responsible.
(b) The one village elder still living.
(c) The Greek Orthodox priest.
(d) The Responsible.

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

6. Who is killed at Sabra and Shatila?
(a) Elias' mother.
(b) Elias' best friend.
(c) Elias' sister.
(d) Hundreds of refugees.

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

8. For what does Elias receive numerous offers?
(a) Numerous jobs in every sector.
(b) Citizenship in other countries.
(c) University teaching positions.
(d) Legal assistance.

9. What does Elias hope will not happen?
(a) The press will not accept it as true.
(b) The readers will not believe it.
(c) Readers will simply discuss it with no action.
(d) The Israeli government will ban it.

10. What does Elias think God desires?
(a) A new way of thinking.
(b) Justice.
(c) Reconciliation.
(d) A turning to God.

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

12. How does Elias say terrorism is often redefined as?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Heroism.
(c) Justification for wrongs.
(d) God's calling.

13. What does Elias realize is making matters worse in Ibillin?
(a) The required billeting of Jewish military forces in the village.
(b) The misunderstanding between the Christians and the Muslims.
(c) The Jewish settlement starting within a few kilometers of the village.
(d) His own anger and lack of forgiveness to the Zionists.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elias ask of his congregation?

2. Who rules Palestine until the end of WWI?

3. Who comes back with Elias from Nazareth?

4. What is disturbing to Elias about the Western Europeans' perspectives on the Palestinian issue?

5. Who is Thomas Herzl?

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