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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Wealthy Jews deride the Arabs as being ____________ and about being lazy.
(a) Mannerless.
(b) Uncouth.
(c) Brash.
(d) Dirty.

2. Many Arabs can not deal with Jews whose own _________ prevent contact and study.
(a) Rabbis.
(b) Torah.
(c) Predjudices.
(d) Rules.

3. What is another name for the day on which the people honor the country's war dead?
(a) Memorial Day.
(b) Independence Day.
(c) Treatise Day.
(d) Jihad Day.

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

5. Interviews with Palestinians showed disappointment with the efforts to improve the people's plight by the ____________________.
(a) Palestinian Authority.
(b) European mediation.
(c) Oslo Convention.
(d) Arab Nations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Four heavily armed _________ seize a hostage and then release him and then are pursued by the mob around them.

2. Laura Franklin notes that it's true that __________ are dirty and sweaty at work, but that their homes are immaculate.

3. The King Hussein of _______ vows to work for peace and for security in the area.

4. The 2002 _____________ shows that the area in the Middle East is growing steadily more complex and explosive.

5. Settlers referred to their occupation of the territories as ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a 13-year-old Jewish boy called when he says that he is upset with the anti-Arab bigotry in his school?

2. How do Jews seem to differentiate among Arabs according to survey data that Shipler examines?

3. What happens when the Israelis grow too grand to perform manual labor in their society?

4. What does Shipler mean when he discusses the idea of 'culture of the desert'?

5. What happens when some of the people retreat to dogmatism in their thinking about the enemy?

6. How are the Arab youth being affected by the actions of the Israeli police?

7. What is the contradiction in opinion that Jews have about Arabs and their work ethic?

8. Why it is sometimes advantageous to be an outsider, according to Shipler?

9. Why does the 12-year-old Palestinian in Jabalya have no past and no future, according to Shipler?

10. What is the recurring theme in the examples that Shipler provides in terms of how the Arabs are portrayed in the media?

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