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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. The opening of the chapter depicts an incident which took place on King _________ Street in Jerusalem.
(a) George.
(b) Henry.
(c) Peter.
(d) Thomas.

2. Shipler discusses censored passages from the ___________'s memoir shoring that the brutality was hardly unintentional.
(a) Field commander.
(b) Mayor.
(c) Commander's wife.
(d) Army.

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

4. Israeli hardliners play up the power of the Arabs, lest others try to understand their ____________.
(a) Motives.
(b) Greed.
(c) Beliefs.
(d) Culture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Power is decidedly one sided - _________ have it and the ____________ do not.

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

3. At this time of the first edition of this book, which flag was outlawed in terms of being permitted to be displayed?

4. Sometimes, being ____________ is advantageous because there is no legacy of long standing antagonism.

5. Shipler wonders whether if his son had been killed during the incident if he would have hated all ____________ and craved revenge.

Short Essay Questions

1. Shipler discusses the naivety of what official Israeli strategy as a means of evaporating Palestinian national aspirations?

2. What do smugglers make sure that young Palestinians get in relation to the Jews?

3. What happens because there is too much bitterness among Arabs and Jews, according to Shipler?

4. What is the first goal of Shipler as he strives to create a main discussion for this book?

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

6. Where was Shipler wandering in the streets at the start of this book and its narrative?

7. What did politicians do when a journalist documents forced expulsions from many parts of the country?

8. What are some of the ways in which Jews typically stereotype Arabs as noted in the book?

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

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

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