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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The book decides to show revelations about an area of the world which is too easy to ______________.
(a) Mock.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Forget.
(d) Marginalize.

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

3. The __________ are the Zionists who founded Israel and control the government.
(a) Ashkenazim.
(b) Sephardim.
(c) Israelites.
(d) Sihhphi.

4. Schools on both sides, Shipler says, continue to deal selectively with the creation of Israel, the ____________ of the conflict.
(a) High point.
(b) Original sin.
(c) Ending.
(d) Patient zero.

5. Shipler says that a powerful fear of the alleged sexual __________ of Arab men is intermixed with all of the other stereotypes Jews hold.
(a) Infertility.
(b) Impotence.
(c) Domination.
(d) Prowess.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shipler focuses on the variety of ____________ at the Damascus Gate at the start of the book.

2. Jews can not necessarily deal with the idea that modern __________ Arabs do not fit into their stereotypes.

3. It is believed that ______________ changed the Jews.

4. Shipler claims that at the time he and his family lived in Jerusalem, it was safer than _____________.

5. A Syrian prisoner of war wept when he realized that the kibbutzim were not the ___________ he had 'known' them to be.

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