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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is disturbing to Elias about the Western Europeans' perspectives on the Palestinian issue?
(a) It is so inaccurate.
(b) It is vastly divergent from his experience.
(c) It is based on so little truth but is believed so strongly.
(d) It is so prejudicial in favor of the Jews.

3. Who is Thomas Herzl?
(a) The leader of them moderate Jews opposed to Zionism.
(b) The leader of a faction of European Jews who want all Jews to move to Palestine.
(c) The Zionist leader to whom Elias asks about Zionism.
(d) The founder of the Zionist movement.

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

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

6. How does Elias feel about the situation with the Palestinians?
(a) Optimistic that the Jewish government will start being fair.
(b) Hopeless.
(c) Confused.
(d) Overwhelmed.

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

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

9. What is Biram like?
(a) Abandoned.
(b) Thriving.
(c) There is no evidence that there has ever been a village there.
(d) A few families are still living there.

10. What does Elias expect of the Jews?
(a) That they would have more compassion.
(b) That they would be fair.
(c) That they would see how they had become as those who persecuted them were.
(d) That they accept a broader definition of who is God's children.

11. Which one of Jesus' sayings comes to Elias' mind at the end of this chapter?
(a) "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."
(b) "Work, for the night is coming."
(c) "Blessed are the poor in spirit."
(d) "Ask and ye shall receive."

12. What does Elias talk the sisters into doing?
(a) Visitin Muslim women.
(b) One of them going to nursing school.
(c) Cooking a noonday meal for any who are hungry.
(d) Staying permanently.

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

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

15. What does the world demand?
(a) A stronger peacekeeping force.
(b) An investigation into Sabra and Shatila.
(c) That the PLO be punished.
(d) That the soldiers be punished.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Elias vow he will stay in Ibillin?

2. What does Elias think most Europeans believe about Palestine?

3. What does Elias do to better understand the situation in Palestine?

4. Who comes back with Elias from Nazareth?

5. What does Elias call upon the Palestinians to do?

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