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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why do the Arab villages through which the men of Biram travel offer no help?
(a) They have nothing to offer the men.
(b) They think they are thieves.
(c) They are afraid for their own safety.
(d) They think the Zionist deserve the land.

4. What do the Irgun ultimately carry out?
(a) A mandate to resolve the Palestinian issue in a fair way.
(b) Genocide.
(c) A short war to show their power.
(d) A peaceful solution.

5. What does Elias's father purchase?
(a) A camel.
(b) A donkey.
(c) A bison.
(d) A lamb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Zionist soldiers tell the people of Biram?

2. What does Elias begin to write?

3. To whom does Michael speak?

4. When the villagers return to Biram, what happens?

5. Why are Michael and his brothers outraged?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Elias' father explain about the Jews coming to the town?

2. How did Elias feel about school and where else did he learn what he considered important?

3. What would a current student of the Middle East find strange about Palestine in the late 1940's?

4. What did Elias begin to do after so many people were taken from the village of Gish? What did he believe about the situation?

5. Under whose rule was Palestine since the 1930's, what kind of people was the population, how did they get along and how did the residents feel about themselves after World War II?

6. With what was Elias suspected of doing by Zionist soldiers and what was the final outcome of that accusation?

7. Where and when did Elias Chacour grow up and what did his family do for a living?

8. What did a second Supreme Court rule about the town of Biram and what happened after that ruling?

9. What was Elias's main struggle with understanding Jews?

10. What happens in Palestine when the United Nations steps into the conflict?

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