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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shipler notes that a shift in tactics to assaults on select individuals backfired when applied to ___________ in the West Bank.
(a) Armies.
(b) Palestinians.
(c) Arab Muslims.
(d) Jews.

2. With the rise of ___________ in the seventh century, an Arab-Jewish symbiosis flowered.
(a) Wars.
(b) Islam.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Christianity.

3. A reporter Shipler brought with him to the prison camp was a survivor of ______________.
(a) Cancer.
(b) Polio.
(c) Heart disease.
(d) Auschwitz.

4. Jews can not necessarily deal with the idea that modern __________ Arabs do not fit into their stereotypes.
(a) Palestinian.
(b) Wandering.
(c) Muslim.
(d) Israeli.

5. Israelis were disappointed that the Arab TV show wasn't broadcast in the West so that the viewers could see how _______ the Arabs are.
(a) Subhuman.
(b) Fearsome.
(c) Talented.
(d) Beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shipler points out that few Arabs know anything about ___________ as it is not covered well, if at all, in school.

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

3. Westernized _________ tend to be the most susceptible to political radicalism.

4. ____________ is comfortable to both sides as everyone knows unambiguously whom to hate.

5. _____________ do not practice polygamy and enforce veiling of women as some Jews believe.

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