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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Shipler fears that Arab youth are being affected by the Israeli ___________ using strong arm tactics in the presence of youth.
(a) Men.
(b) Police.
(c) Government.
(d) Leaders.

3. A Syrian prisoner of war wept when he realized that the kibbutzim were not the ___________ he had 'known' them to be.
(a) Governments.
(b) Terrorism cells.
(c) War camps.
(d) Centers of worship.

4. Liberal Jews speak of fears for the integrity of the ____________ enterprise.
(a) Muslim.
(b) Conservative Jews.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Zionist.

5. Israeli Jews have mixed feelings about war's ________, whereas Arabs allow the Islamic concept of jihad.
(a) Morality.
(b) Necessity.
(c) Violence.
(d) Feasability.

6. Some young upper class Arabs try to escape their _______ ways and try to emulate the West.
(a) Archaic.
(b) Ethnic.
(c) Boring.
(d) Backward.

7. Children taught only caution in dealing with __________ more often grow to fear and hate them.
(a) Arabs.
(b) Leaders.
(c) Adults.
(d) Soldiers.

8. Elias Freij sees growing on the crest of the hills a new Jewish neighborhood, _________, whose architecture is not at all rooted in the land.
(a) Erza.
(b) Gilo.
(c) Philo.
(d) Thera.

9. The author observes that a "great tangle of nonsense grows from a seed of __________."
(a) Truth.
(b) Willingness.
(c) Peace.
(d) Understanding.

10. There is too much bitterness between the Arabs and the Jews for them to generate ________ about themselves or each other.
(a) Conversations.
(b) Stories.
(c) Jokes.
(d) Treaties.

11. _____________ do not practice polygamy and enforce veiling of women as some Jews believe.
(a) Palestinians.
(b) Iraqis.
(c) Foreigners.
(d) Israeli-Jews.

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

13. Where did Arabs who were expelled from their villages in 1948 end up going?
(a) Refugee camps.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

14. Acts of violence lead to ___________, worst case assumptions and calls for retribution.
(a) Talks.
(b) Speculation.
(c) Violence.
(d) Committees.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Shipler begins to describe the history of the Palestinian and the Israeli ________ to help the reader gain perspective.

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

4. Shipler talks with several participants in a program called Interns for _______.

5. The college age Palestinian who was caught by Israeli patrol feared ___________, but experienced something different.

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