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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The official Israeli strategy is to destroy the ___________ as a means of evaporating Palestinian national aspirations.
(a) Media coverage.
(b) PLO.
(c) Schools.
(d) Government.

2. Israeli authorities monitor ___________ prayers in the mosques, warning imams not to preach on controversial subjects.
(a) Friday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Wednesday.

3. Shipler seeks to examine the interlocking ______________ that Jews and Arabs use to categorize each other.
(a) Stereotypes.
(b) Images.
(c) Cultures.
(d) Slurs.

4. Elias Freij sees growing on the crest of the hills a new Jewish neighborhood, _________, whose architecture is not at all rooted in the land.
(a) Philo.
(b) Thera.
(c) Erza.
(d) Gilo.

5. __________ abounds on both sides, established by decades of war and terror, and individuals vary in how bigoted or tolerant they are.
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Terrorism.
(c) Worry.
(d) Understanding.

6. Opinion polls in 2002 fluctuated around the 50% mark among Israelis over whether they could accept an independent ___________ state next door.
(a) Israeli.
(b) Palestinian.
(c) Military.
(d) Peaceful.

7. Some Arabs make an intellectual effort to discredit Jewish claims to _______________ in the land.
(a) Homes.
(b) Places of worship.
(c) Families.
(d) Authentic heritage.

8. Shipler seeks to catalog the ___________ each side has of the other side.
(a) Images.
(b) Uses.
(c) Education.
(d) Cultures.

9. A sociologist reports that in an integrated neighborhood, there is not tension, but there is notable ______________.
(a) Violence.
(b) Hesitancy.
(c) Separation.
(d) Camaraderie.

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

11. 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.

12. Settlers also were determined to establish a purely ___________ way of life where they now resided.
(a) Jewish.
(b) Arabic.
(c) Fundamentalist.
(d) Monastic.

13. As of the 2002 postscript, there is no lessening of the __________ desire to return to their homes.
(a) Government's.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Israeli.
(d) Arab.

14. Westernized _________ tend to be the most susceptible to political radicalism.
(a) Jews.
(b) Muslims.
(c) Lebanese.
(d) Arabs.

15. When the enemy has no _______________, it makes the hatred and bigotry easier.
(a) Name.
(b) Face.
(c) Honor.
(d) Family.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Failing to understand the more reserved ____________ of the Ashkenazim, Arabs were unable to recognize authentic hospitality.

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

4. A tiny number of Israelis understand ________, which leads to paranoia.

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

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