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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 learn when he is giving a speech in Germany?
(a) Hundreds of refugees in two Lebanese camps are massacred.
(b) Two of his brothers are killed supposedly as PLO members.
(c) His father is killed supposedly as a PLO member.
(d) His sister has died.

2. What does Elias hope will not happen?
(a) The press will not accept it as true.
(b) The readers will not believe it.
(c) Readers will simply discuss it with no action.
(d) The Israeli government will ban it.

3. What is the Zionists' reply to the argument that wherever they establish a State of Israel, there would already be people living there?
(a) They said God would take care of the problem.
(b) They would give the people more-than-fair prices for their land and help them relocate.
(c) They would force resettlement of those peoples.
(d) They would negotiate peaceful co-existance.

4. Who acts as a little dictator?
(a) The Responsible.
(b) The one village elder still living.
(c) The Wife of the Responsible.
(d) The Greek Orthodox priest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who rules Palestine until the end of WWI?

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

3. What is disturbing to Elias about the Western Europeans' perspectives on the Palestinian issue?

4. Who verbally attacks Elias?

5. Why is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so horrible in Elias' eyes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had happened in Palestine by the time Elias returned there after his studies in Paris?

2. What did more moderate Jews call for about the establishment of Israel and the Palestinian problem?

3. What was Biram like when Elias returned there from his time in Paris?

4. What was Bishop Raya's background and what was he determined to do?

5. What happened about the massacre in question number 50?

6. What type of personal epiphany did Elias have at Ibillin and what did he decide?

7. What did Elias see as the view the Western world had of the Jews and a homeland?

8. What was Elias doing when he knew what work remained for him and what was that work?

9. How did Elias feel after researching the history of Palestine and Jews and why did he feel that way?

10. What occurred during some of Elias's successes that set back the peace movement?

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