View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Failing to understand the more reserved ____________ of the Ashkenazim, Arabs were unable to recognize authentic hospitality.
(a) Rules.
(b) Language.
(c) Nature.
(d) Homes.

2. Through contact with individual __________, Arabs often soften their stance and realize the danger of their stereotyping.
(a) Jews.
(b) Insurgents.
(c) Children.
(d) Arabs.

3. Sometimes, being ____________ is advantageous because there is no legacy of long standing antagonism.
(a) Jewish.
(b) A woman.
(c) An outsider.
(d) Arabic.

4. The colonel tells the woman that he agrees that the Palestinians deserve self - ____________.
(a) Government.
(b) Determination.
(c) Service peace treaties.
(d) Controlled lands.

5. A publication in 1950 said that so many Christians had converted to Islam over the years that ________ blood was an acceptable substitute.
(a) Christian.
(b) Atheist.
(c) Muslim.
(d) Jewish.

Short Answer Questions

1. The official Israeli strategy is to destroy the ___________ as a means of evaporating Palestinian national aspirations.

2. Children tend to parrot the generalizations they hear and see, thus all __________ are Kahane and all Jews kill Arabs in refugee camps.

3. An Egyptian girl tells Shipler how surprised she was to find ______________ so Middle Eastern.

4. Some young upper class Arabs try to escape their _______ ways and try to emulate the West.

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 215 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample