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

2. Others charge that the Jews are agents of _______________, whether capitalistic or communist, and will distance Arabs from religious life.
(a) Materialism.
(b) Change.
(c) Government.
(d) Bureacracy.

3. The college age Palestinian who was caught by Israeli patrol feared ___________, but experienced something different.
(a) Slaughter.
(b) Torture.
(c) Retribution.
(d) Indoctrination.

4. The official ___________ myth is that 700,000 Arabs fled their homes in 1948, freely giving up their rights.
(a) Israeli.
(b) American.
(c) Muslim.
(d) Arab.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Shipler ends the chapter by talking about the treatment of battle ______________ that afflicted many of the Israeli soldiers who fought in Lebanon.

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

3. Rabbi David Hartman is a ___________ philosopher who states that religion is naturally reactionary.

4. What is the only integrated community in Israel, according to this chapter?

5. Where did Arabs who were expelled from their villages in 1948 end up going?

(see the answer key)

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