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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. Shipler looks at the current textbooks and sees that there are no dialogues, just inflammatory ____________.
(a) Pictures.
(b) Comics.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) Stories.

2. What is another name for the day on which the people honor the country's war dead?
(a) Treatise Day.
(b) Memorial Day.
(c) Jihad Day.
(d) Independence Day.

3. A social studies teacher tells Shipler that the Jewish attitude is that 'we can do whatever we _________ with the Arabs."
(a) Desire.
(b) Want.
(c) Can.
(d) Like.

4. A 1984 commuter bus hijacking occurred, but the Israeli military censors imposed a complete _____________.
(a) Coverup.
(b) Blackout.
(c) Press coverage.
(d) List of demands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Settlers referred to their occupation of the territories as ______________.

2. Shipler seeks to unravel the complexities of interaction by which the tiny minority of high-minded individuals strive to bridge the gap of ___________.

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

4. _____________ is a nationalistic movement, whose political agenda is in continuity with the lamentation of the Jews exiled to Bablyon.

5. Shipler does admit to finding much _______________ among the Arabs he visits, but little of the systematic vindictiveness described in the previous chapter.

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was Shipler wandering in the streets at the start of this book and its narrative?

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

3. How do Jews seem to differentiate among Arabs according to survey data that Shipler examines?

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

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

6. How are the Arab youth being affected by the actions of the Israeli police?

7. Where is the Israelis' rejection of Palestinianism shown, according to Shipler?

8. What is the recurring theme in the examples that Shipler provides in terms of how the Arabs are portrayed in the media?

9. What do smugglers make sure that young Palestinians get in relation to the Jews?

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

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