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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. Others charge that the Jews are agents of _______________, whether capitalistic or communist, and will distance Arabs from religious life.
(a) Bureacracy.
(b) Change.
(c) Government.
(d) Materialism.

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

3. Settlers also were determined to establish a purely ___________ way of life where they now resided.
(a) Fundamentalist.
(b) Arabic.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Monastic.

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

5. Shipler notes that _________ among Arabs is so high that it is unlikely that the virulent bigotry has much affect on Arabic minds.
(a) Religious practice.
(b) Nonchalance.
(c) Illiteracy.
(d) Peaceful aspiration.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Four heavily armed _________ seize a hostage and then release him and then are pursued by the mob around them.

4. The 2002 _____________ shows that the area in the Middle East is growing steadily more complex and explosive.

5. The Arab-Israeli dispute is _________, but fundamentalism fans the flames.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the contradiction in opinion that Jews have about Arabs and their work ethic?

3. What do the Palestinians NOT do, even though many Jews say that they do?

4. What happens when the Israelis grow too grand to perform manual labor in their society?

5. Why it is sometimes advantageous to be an outsider, according to Shipler?

6. What does the two day celebration of the Day of Remembrance celebrate according to the book?

7. Why does the Arab side of the argument lack a spokesperson for reason?

8. Why is it said that conflict is comfortable to both sides of this area?

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

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

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