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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Through contact with individual __________, Arabs often soften their stance and realize the danger of their stereotyping.
(a) Arabs.
(b) Insurgents.
(c) Jews.
(d) Children.

3. Violence and counter violence have become not just byproducts of political battles, but also the origin of new __________.
(a) Terrorist acts.
(b) Anger.
(c) Directions.
(d) Rifts.

4. It is thought that Arabs are practical in daily life, but exaggerated in their ___________ life.
(a) Family.
(b) Warrior.
(c) Business.
(d) Spiritual.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Some young upper class Arabs try to escape their _______ ways and try to emulate the West.

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

3. Terrorism is meant to be ___________________, not intended to harm individual victims.

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

5. Shipler claims that at the time he and his family lived in Jerusalem, it was safer than _____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. And finally, what is Shipler's third goal for this book and for the reading audience as a whole?

2. Where is the Israelis' rejection of Palestinianism shown, according to Shipler?

3. Where was Shipler wandering in the streets at the start of this book and its narrative?

4. What does Rabbi Hartman have to say about religion at the start of this chapter?

5. What do some scholars with whom Shipler speaks say in regards to most Muslims' understanding of their own book?

6. What happens as a result of rumors being spread of a female accomplice in the hostage situation at the start of the chapter?

7. How are the Arab youth being affected by the actions of the Israeli police?

8. What is a 13-year-old Jewish boy called when he says that he is upset with the anti-Arab bigotry in his school?

9. What leads to paranoia about what might be said by Arabs on the television or on the radio?

10. What does Shipler mean when he discusses the idea of 'culture of the desert'?

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