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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Acts of violence lead to ___________, worst case assumptions and calls for retribution.
(a) Violence.
(b) Talks.
(c) Committees.
(d) Speculation.

2. Shipler describes how a _____________ prisoner was surprised when he could not discern any difference between a Sephardic and Ashkenazi guard.
(a) Lebanese.
(b) Palestinian.
(c) African.
(d) Jewish.

3. During the takeover of the West Bank and Jerusalem in 1967, Arabs were surprised by how ___________ they were treated.
(a) Humanely.
(b) Cruelly.
(c) Harshly.
(d) Indifferently.

4. _____________ is a nationalistic movement, whose political agenda is in continuity with the lamentation of the Jews exiled to Bablyon.
(a) Judaism.
(b) Muslim pride.
(c) Zionism.
(d) Jihad.

5. Both sides, it seems to Shipler, have many ________, making a discussion of them all the more difficult.
(a) Histories.
(b) Beliefs.
(c) Facets.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Israeli children grow up with the lasting impression that Arabs are a colorful, menacing _____________.

2. Most Jews, even the well-educated and liberal ones, are so completely isolated from contact with _____________ that they can not fully understand the situation.

3. Power is decidedly one sided - _________ have it and the ____________ do not.

4. Shipler traces _______ waves of settles, none of whom felt any mystical attraction to the land.

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

(see the answer key)

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