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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shipler deals with the Jewish stereotype that Arabs are violent, uncivilized ___________.
(a) Primitives.
(b) Brutes.
(c) Fighters.
(d) Men.

2. Shipler seeks to unravel the complexities of interaction by which the tiny minority of high-minded individuals strive to bridge the gap of ___________.
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Religion.
(d) Peace.

3. The twelve-year-old Palestinian notes that he has no ________ and no future.
(a) Home.
(b) Sense of belonging.
(c) Past.
(d) Dreams.

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

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

6. Freij does not hate the ____________, just what they do: introduce foreign culture which contaminates the Arabs' ancient culture.
(a) Foreigners.
(b) Arabs.
(c) Jews.
(d) Terrorists.

7. During the takeover of the West Bank and Jerusalem in 1967, Arabs were surprised by how ___________ they were treated.
(a) Indifferently.
(b) Humanely.
(c) Harshly.
(d) Cruelly.

8. Rabbi David Hartman is a ___________ philosopher who states that religion is naturally reactionary.
(a) Western.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) New Age.

9. The King Hussein of _______ vows to work for peace and for security in the area.
(a) Jordan.
(b) Pakistan.
(c) Israel.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

10. The opening of this chapter talks about the two day celebration of the Day of ____________.
(a) Remembrance.
(b) Souls.
(c) Honor.
(d) War.

11. Rarely, Shipler notes, does terrorism become an effective tool as it quickly becomes _______________.
(a) Unorganized.
(b) Violent.
(c) Simple.
(d) Routine.

12. Rumors spread of a ___________ accomplice and foreign tourists fitting that description are rounded up for questioning.
(a) Child.
(b) Caucasian male.
(c) Female.
(d) Asian male.

13. _____________ is a nationalistic movement, whose political agenda is in continuity with the lamentation of the Jews exiled to Bablyon.
(a) Muslim pride.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Zionism.
(d) Jihad.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ is comfortable to both sides as everyone knows unambiguously whom to hate.

2. The colonel tells the woman that he agrees that the Palestinians deserve self - ____________.

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

4. Shipler explains that Middle Easterners have always felt the need to pigeonhole new acquaintances by their __________.

5. Acts of violence lead to ___________, worst case assumptions and calls for retribution.

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