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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shipler describes life in the Dheisheh __________ on the occupied West Bank where every aspect of life instills militancy in youth.
(a) Complex.
(b) Precinct.
(c) Ghetto.
(d) Camp.

2. The 2002 _____________ shows that the area in the Middle East is growing steadily more complex and explosive.
(a) Peace treaty.
(b) Postscript.
(c) Prelude.
(d) Promise.

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

4. To improve the condition of the _________ would lesson the tension necessary to achieve statehood.
(a) Mosques.
(b) Sanitation.
(c) Camps.
(d) Temples.

5. Why wasn't King Hussein able to continue his vision for peace and stability in the area?
(a) He left the country.
(b) He died of cancer.
(c) He was assassinated.
(d) His treaty was not ratified.

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

7. A Jewish lawyer tells Shipler that ___________ do not work on Arabs since they show no psychological signs of mendacity.
(a) Rules.
(b) Laws.
(c) Polygraphs.
(d) Treaties.

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

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

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

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

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

13. _________ work is frequently found in juvenile literature for Jews, reinforcing stereotypes.
(a) Dirty.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Savage.
(d) Arab.

14. Shipler explains that Middle Easterners have always felt the need to pigeonhole new acquaintances by their __________.
(a) Appearance.
(b) Cleanliness.
(c) Religion.
(d) Skin color.

15. __________ abounds on both sides, established by decades of war and terror, and individuals vary in how bigoted or tolerant they are.
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Terrorism.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Worry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The book decides to show revelations about an area of the world which is too easy to ______________.

3. There is fear, but also ________ in the way that Israeli Jews view the Arab.

4. There is a profound resentment that Arab youth are exempt from ____________, which gives them an advantage in the job market.

5. Schools on both sides, Shipler says, continue to deal selectively with the creation of Israel, the ____________ of the conflict.

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