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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 Elias realize in church on his first day in Nazareth?
(a) God really is not involved in human's squabbles.
(b) He is not to become a priest.
(c) He feels at home.
(d) He is not to become a lawyer.

2. Who of Elias's family is taken by the Irgun?
(a) Only his father.
(b) Only both his older brothers.
(c) Only his one older brother.
(d) His father and three older brothers.

3. Where are Zionist soldiers winning against the British?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) On the border of Saudia Arabia.
(c) Southern Palestine.
(d) In the city of Jerusalem.

4. What does Elias wonder about happiness?
(a) Why happiness is not important.
(b) How one could feel happy in poverty or grief.
(c) Why his friends who are not religious were happy.
(d) How a god that is unseen can give you happiness.

5. Where do Elias and his friend Faraj decide to go?
(a) To the United States.
(b) To England.
(c) To Biram.
(d) To Jerusalem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the British withdraw from an area?

2. What do the residents of Palestine hope?

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

4. What do Elias and Faraj find lacking in their rather clinical studies?

5. What do the Irgun ultimately carry out?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. What did the Zionist soldiers tell the people in Elias's hometown and how did they respond?

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

8. What did Elias see in Jesus and how did he feel about Jesus? How did Elias see his interaction with Jesus?

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

10. How did Elias and his friend find the studies in Paris?

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