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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Power is decidedly one sided - _________ have it and the ____________ do not.
(a) Neither; neither.
(b) Both; both.
(c) Jews; Arabs.
(d) Arabs; Jews.

2. The opening at the beginning of the book is a wandering of the streets of ____________ from sunrise to high noon.
(a) Nazareth.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Dubai.
(d) Istanbul.

3. Israeli hardliners play up the power of the Arabs, lest others try to understand their ____________.
(a) Greed.
(b) Beliefs.
(c) Culture.
(d) Motives.

4. Both sides, it seems to Shipler, have many ________, making a discussion of them all the more difficult.
(a) Facets.
(b) Children.
(c) Histories.
(d) Beliefs.

5. Shipler describes the prison camp as a squalid _______, stinking of sewage and garbage.
(a) Place.
(b) Ditch.
(c) Sore.
(d) Hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shipler does admit to finding much _______________ among the Arabs he visits, but little of the systematic vindictiveness described in the previous chapter.

2. A publication in 1950 said that so many Christians had converted to Islam over the years that ________ blood was an acceptable substitute.

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

4. A teenage Bedouin girl asks for a ride back to the herd of ________ she tends.

5. Shipler looks at the current textbooks and sees that there are no dialogues, just inflammatory ____________.

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