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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some young upper class Arabs try to escape their _______ ways and try to emulate the West.
(a) Ethnic.
(b) Archaic.
(c) Backward.
(d) Boring.

2. Shipler traces _______ waves of settles, none of whom felt any mystical attraction to the land.
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

3. Shipler ends the chapter by talking about the treatment of battle ______________ that afflicted many of the Israeli soldiers who fought in Lebanon.
(a) Fatigue.
(b) Wounds.
(c) Flu.
(d) Infections.

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

5. Children taught only caution in dealing with __________ more often grow to fear and hate them.
(a) Arabs.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Adults.
(d) Leaders.

6. Children tend to parrot the generalizations they hear and see, thus all __________ are Kahane and all Jews kill Arabs in refugee camps.
(a) Children.
(b) Terrorists.
(c) Women.
(d) Rabbis.

7. The Arab-Israeli dispute is _________, but fundamentalism fans the flames.
(a) Quiet.
(b) Secular.
(c) Calm.
(d) Simple.

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

9. Shipler describes life in the Dheisheh __________ on the occupied West Bank where every aspect of life instills militancy in youth.
(a) Complex.
(b) Camp.
(c) Precinct.
(d) Ghetto.

10. There is fear, but also ________ in the way that Israeli Jews view the Arab.
(a) Intimidation.
(b) Fascination.
(c) Terror.
(d) Understanding.

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

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

13. The 2002 _____________ shows that the area in the Middle East is growing steadily more complex and explosive.
(a) Peace treaty.
(b) Prelude.
(c) Postscript.
(d) Promise.

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

15. Shipler deals with the Jewish stereotype that Arabs are violent, uncivilized ___________.
(a) Men.
(b) Brutes.
(c) Fighters.
(d) Primitives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shipler realizes there is no _____________ Israel or Palestine.

2. Shipler focuses on the variety of ____________ at the Damascus Gate at the start of the book.

3. Jews can not necessarily deal with the idea that modern __________ Arabs do not fit into their stereotypes.

4. The Lebanese women opposes a _________________ between Israel and Lebanon because this would result in an expansion of the Jewish state.

5. During the takeover of the West Bank and Jerusalem in 1967, Arabs were surprised by how ___________ they were treated.

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