View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shipler discusses censored passages from the ___________'s memoir shoring that the brutality was hardly unintentional.
(a) Army.
(b) Commander's wife.
(c) Mayor.
(d) Field commander.

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

3. 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.

4. ____________ is comfortable to both sides as everyone knows unambiguously whom to hate.
(a) Government.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Bigotry.
(d) Peace.

5. There is fear, but also ________ in the way that Israeli Jews view the Arab.
(a) Intimidation.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Fascination.
(d) Terror.

6. A Lebanese woman opposed her father's speech, thanking the ___________ for liberating them from the PLO.
(a) Terrorists.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Israeli army.
(d) Arab army.

7. A 1984 commuter bus hijacking occurred, but the Israeli military censors imposed a complete _____________.
(a) Coverup.
(b) Blackout.
(c) List of demands.
(d) Press coverage.

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

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

10. The colonel tells the woman that he agrees that the Palestinians deserve self - ____________.
(a) Determination.
(b) Government.
(c) Controlled lands.
(d) Service peace treaties.

11. Shipler talks with several participants in a program called Interns for _______.
(a) Peace.
(b) Convergence.
(c) Witnessing.
(d) Blessings.

12. Shipler does admit to finding much _______________ among the Arabs he visits, but little of the systematic vindictiveness described in the previous chapter.
(a) Bitterness.
(b) Rage.
(c) Agreement.
(d) Happiness.

13. 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) Charts.
(b) Chapters.
(c) Maps.
(d) Graphs.

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

15. Schools on both sides, Shipler says, continue to deal selectively with the creation of Israel, the ____________ of the conflict.
(a) Original sin.
(b) High point.
(c) Patient zero.
(d) Ending.

Short Answer Questions

1. The __________ are the Zionists who founded Israel and control the government.

2. A tiny number of Israelis understand ________, which leads to paranoia.

3. ___________ arguments carry little weight, even among extreme West Bank settlers.

4. __________ abounds on both sides, established by decades of war and terror, and individuals vary in how bigoted or tolerant they are.

5. The author observes that a "great tangle of nonsense grows from a seed of __________."

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 396 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample