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. The official Israeli strategy is to destroy the ___________ as a means of evaporating Palestinian national aspirations.
(a) Media coverage.
(b) Schools.
(c) Government.
(d) PLO.

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

3. Who are considered to be fearsome, violent, immensely strong, cruel and cowardly?
(a) Both.
(b) Arabs.
(c) Jews.
(d) Neither.

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

5. Israeli Jews have mixed feelings about war's ________, whereas Arabs allow the Islamic concept of jihad.
(a) Morality.
(b) Violence.
(c) Necessity.
(d) Feasability.

Short Answer Questions

1. Israeli hardliners play up the power of the Arabs, lest others try to understand their ____________.

2. Shipler looks at the current textbooks and sees that there are no dialogues, just inflammatory ____________.

3. Children taught only caution in dealing with __________ more often grow to fear and hate them.

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

5. Shipler discusses censored passages from the ___________'s memoir shoring that the brutality was hardly unintentional.

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