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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is dangerously high for the Arab population, causing concern for the Jewish inhabitants?
(a) Rape rate.
(b) Death rate.
(c) Birth rate.
(d) Violence rate.

2. The Arab-Israeli dispute is _________, but fundamentalism fans the flames.
(a) Quiet.
(b) Simple.
(c) Secular.
(d) Calm.

3. The young girl says she would like to learn how to __________, but she is too old for coeducational learning.
(a) Read.
(b) Do math problems.
(c) Make more money.
(d) Draw.

4. Wealthy Jews deride the Arabs as being ____________ and about being lazy.
(a) Mannerless.
(b) Dirty.
(c) Brash.
(d) Uncouth.

5. The Arab side if equally radicalized, but lacks a __________ for reason, like the Rabbi Hartman.
(a) Direction.
(b) Spokesman.
(c) Committment.
(d) Promise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because the tribesmen have no quarrel with the ____________, they are treated kindly, remarkably generously in the opinion of many of the Bedouin.

2. Hartman states that biblical people are ______________, which can turn religion into a force of evil.

3. Shipler examines both sides' abandonment of the common ____________ of the desert.

4. A 13-year-old __________ boy is upset by the anti-Arab bigotry and is called a traitor, a PLO supporter and a communist.

5. Camel caravans used to take 18 days to reach Cairo, so they would only occur __________ times a year.

(see the answer key)

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