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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The 2002 _____________ shows that the area in the Middle East is growing steadily more complex and explosive.
(a) Prelude.
(b) Postscript.
(c) Promise.
(d) Peace treaty.

2. An Egyptian girl tells Shipler how surprised she was to find ______________ so Middle Eastern.
(a) Tel Aviv.
(b) Baghdad.
(c) Nazareth.
(d) Ramallah.

3. When the enemy has no _______________, it makes the hatred and bigotry easier.
(a) Honor.
(b) Family.
(c) Name.
(d) Face.

4. As of the 2002 postscript, there is no lessening of the __________ desire to return to their homes.
(a) Government's.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Arab.
(d) Israeli.

5. Opinion polls in 2002 fluctuated around the 50% mark among Israelis over whether they could accept an independent ___________ state next door.
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Israeli.
(c) Palestinian.
(d) Military.

6. Shipler plans to reveal the broad forces in the area which contribute to ______________.
(a) Peace.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Change.
(d) Aversion.

7. Terrorism is meant to be ___________________, not intended to harm individual victims.
(a) Tremendous.
(b) Bloody.
(c) Theater.
(d) A message.

8. Who are considered to be fearsome, violent, immensely strong, cruel and cowardly?
(a) Arabs.
(b) Neither.
(c) Jews.
(d) Both.

9. Interviews with Palestinians showed disappointment with the efforts to improve the people's plight by the ____________________.
(a) European mediation.
(b) Oslo Convention.
(c) Arab Nations.
(d) Palestinian Authority.

10. The labeling on ___________ published by both sides in textbooks continues to make clear that neither side yet accepts the reality that neither can covet the whole of the land.
(a) Chapters.
(b) Maps.
(c) Graphs.
(d) Charts.

11. Shipler has an extended analysis of ___________ as practiced by both the Arabs and the Jews.
(a) Consensus.
(b) Peace making.
(c) Terrorism.
(d) Cultural cleanses.

12. Four heavily armed _________ seize a hostage and then release him and then are pursued by the mob around them.
(a) Iranians.
(b) Iraqis.
(c) Jews.
(d) Arabs.

13. Shipler traces _______ waves of settles, none of whom felt any mystical attraction to the land.
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

14. Shipler focuses on the variety of ____________ at the Damascus Gate at the start of the book.
(a) Sadness.
(b) Life.
(c) Pain.
(d) Children.

15. Settlers also were determined to establish a purely ___________ way of life where they now resided.
(a) Jewish.
(b) Arabic.
(c) Fundamentalist.
(d) Monastic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Elias Freij sees growing on the crest of the hills a new Jewish neighborhood, _________, whose architecture is not at all rooted in the land.

2. The twelve-year-old Palestinian notes that he has no ________ and no future.

3. Children tend to parrot the generalizations they hear and see, thus all __________ are Kahane and all Jews kill Arabs in refugee camps.

4. Laura Franklin notes that it's true that __________ are dirty and sweaty at work, but that their homes are immaculate.

5. The Arab-Israeli dispute is _________, but fundamentalism fans the flames.

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