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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 is Elias immersed in at his new home?
(a) Learning all about the history of Palestine.
(b) The study of law.
(c) Biblical study.
(d) Learning about the religion of the Jews.

2. What do the Christians who remain in Jerusalem continue to believe?
(a) That Jesus is a human with godlike qualities.
(b) That God designated Jerusalem as the city of salvation.
(c) That Jesus is God.
(d) That Jesus is a metaphor for how one should live.

3. When do the British withdraw from Palestine completely?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1955.

4. How does Elias feel about school?
(a) He believes school and the church are too intertwined.
(b) He hates it.
(c) He loves it.
(d) He is indifferent to school.

5. What was increasingly happening to non-Jewish Palestinians?
(a) They were cooperating with the Zionist out of fear.
(b) They were becoming refugees in their own land.
(c) They were being herded into concentration camps.
(d) They were living peacefully alongside the Zionist.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the family decide to greet the soldiers?

2. Where do the children in Biram attend school?

3. Where had the men been taken?

4. Who is Faraj Nakhleh?

5. What is frustrating to Elias?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the three important principles Elias learned from his father as stated in the section, Treasures of the Heart?

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

3. Who are the Zionist soldiers battling in Palestine in the late 1940's and what is the result of those battles?

4. How did the other seminarians in Paris where Elias went to farther his education view the Palestinian situation and Palestinians in general?

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

6. Who did Elias become friends with at the orphanage and what happened when the two of them finished their studies there?

7. Who declared Israel an independent state in May 1948 and then what did he do? How did the world respond?

8. Who was taken out of Gish from Elias's family and who was left?

9. What type of journal did Elias begin when he was at school? How long did this journal last?

10. What did Michael Chacour begin to realize about Elias and what did he do about it?

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