These Multiple-Choice exercises for testing vocabulary and grammar skills accompany the Fundamental Arabic Textbook and the Dialogues Textbook I: Words of Everyday Use. The book consists of three parts: a) The exercises (128 exercises); b) The corrections (512 sentences); c) A lexicon of the terms used in the exercises (670 entries). The grammar references are taken from A New Approach to Teaching Arabic Grammar. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2009. The three parts of the book are distinct but could be used simultaneously: first, by doing the exercise; then checking the correction, and, if...

From a very young age, Abdallah Nacereddine was known for his 'Words of Wisdom'; not amusing, childish, insignificant words, but something witty, very wise and solemn. Family members, relatives and neighbors even reminded him of them many years later. But in an illiterate society, no one recorded them in writing. It was only in the 1960s, thanks to the books he read, mainly on Western philosophy, that Abdallah Nacereddine started to write down his thoughts and reflections. They were an immediate success among his circle of friends and acquaintances, and he published three books from 1967 to...