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

2. Interviews with Palestinians showed disappointment with the efforts to improve the people's plight by the ____________________.
(a) European mediation.
(b) Oslo Convention.
(c) Arab Nations.
(d) Palestinian Authority.

3. Both sides, it seems to Shipler, have many ________, making a discussion of them all the more difficult.
(a) Facets.
(b) Children.
(c) Histories.
(d) Beliefs.

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

5. Laura Franklin notes that it's true that __________ are dirty and sweaty at work, but that their homes are immaculate.
(a) Women.
(b) Arabs.
(c) Jews.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Power is decidedly one sided - _________ have it and the ____________ do not.

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

4. The opening at the beginning of the book is a wandering of the streets of ____________ from sunrise to high noon.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the official Israeli myth which is dissected in the book which Shipler has written?

3. What is the second goal of Shipler for this book and for the understanding of the reader?

4. Why does the 12-year-old Palestinian in Jabalya have no past and no future, according to Shipler?

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

6. What does Shipler say a great tangle of nonsense grows from in this chapter?

7. What are some of the ways in which the Israeli Jews see the Arabs, sometimes being disgusted and yet infatuated?

8. What does Shipler discuss as being the goal of terrorism amongst the Jews and Arabs?

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

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

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