2002 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Critics see no need to meet the enemy personally as they already know what ___________ are like.
(a) Foreigners.
(b) Arabs.
(c) Tourists.
(d) Jews.

2. Shipler deals with the Jewish stereotype that Arabs are violent, uncivilized ___________.
(a) Primitives.
(b) Men.
(c) Fighters.
(d) Brutes.

3. Shipler discusses censored passages from the ___________'s memoir shoring that the brutality was hardly unintentional.
(a) Mayor.
(b) Army.
(c) Commander's wife.
(d) Field commander.

4. Both sides are represented by the stories of families reaching back in the disputed __________ for generations.
(a) Government.
(b) Land.
(c) Religion.
(d) Culture.

5. Shipler seeks to examine the interlocking ______________ that Jews and Arabs use to categorize each other.
(a) Slurs.
(b) Cultures.
(c) Images.
(d) Stereotypes.

Short Answer Questions

1. To improve the condition of the _________ would lesson the tension necessary to achieve statehood.

2. The expulsion of all ____________ from the city is demanded as a result of the incident in Jerusalem.

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

4. Shipler describes life in the Dheisheh __________ on the occupied West Bank where every aspect of life instills militancy in youth.

5. A 1984 commuter bus hijacking occurred, but the Israeli military censors imposed a complete _____________.

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