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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elias think most Europeans believe about Palestine?
(a) That Palestine truly belongs to the Jews as God's chosen people.
(b) That Palestine needed more people.
(c) That the Jews move into an uninhabited land.
(d) That Palestine was a unreclaimable desert.

2. Who comes back with Elias from Nazareth?
(a) No one.
(b) His youngest sister and mother.
(c) Three Roman Catholic sisters..
(d) His youngest sister.

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

4. What does Elias establish in Ibillin?
(a) A museum about the holocaust.
(b) A safe zone for displaced children.
(c) A youth camp for all faiths.
(d) A political action center for the promotion of peace.

5. What do the sisters start for the children?
(a) Kindergarten.
(b) After school activities.
(c) Bible school.
(d) Building a playground.

6. What does Elias decide to do?
(a) Let the groups work things out among themselves.
(b) Make the church interdenominational.
(c) Rebuild the church.
(d) Leave.

7. What does Egypt do in retaliation for the Israeli refusal to do as the United Nations asks?
(a) Blocks Israel's one port.
(b) Tries to assassinate the Prime Minister.
(c) Attacks Jerusalem.
(d) Attacks the outlying Jewish settlements.

8. What starts appearing at the door to Elias' residence?
(a) Materials to make his place more comfortable.
(b) Daily food gifts.
(c) Young children to ask him about Jesus.
(d) Nothing.

9. What are the secular Jews worried about as far as Zionism is concerned?
(a) That it would become a terrorist organization.
(b) That it would make Judaism a culture rather than a religion.
(c) That it would commit as many wrongs as it rights.
(d) That it would isolate Jews from the world and increase anti-Semitism.

10. What does the Bishop tell Elias?
(a) That he is to go to Hebrew University.
(b) That he is to take a vacation.
(c) That he is to take on an assistant.
(d) That he is to increase the population of the sisters if possible.

11. What is the Jewish state like in 1967?
(a) Moving towards a major split into two sovereign countries.
(b) No unified and many factions vying for power.
(c) Fairly much chohesive and unified.
(d) Total chaos.

12. What is Ibillin?
(a) The village where Elias's family now lives.
(b) A town where much fighting is occurring.
(c) The village to which Elais is assigned.
(d) The village closest to Biram.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Elias read to do?

2. With what do the Palestinians still struggle?

3. What other group does Elias address?

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

5. About what is the United Nations pressuring Israel?

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