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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. Both sides, it seems to Shipler, have many ________, making a discussion of them all the more difficult.
(a) Histories.
(b) Beliefs.
(c) Facets.
(d) Children.

2. Shipler has an extended analysis of ___________ as practiced by both the Arabs and the Jews.
(a) Terrorism.
(b) Peace making.
(c) Cultural cleanses.
(d) Consensus.

3. A journalist states that ______ are so used to having enemies that hey are suspicious when someone tries to be their friend.
(a) Arabs.
(b) Armies.
(c) Jews.
(d) Women.

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

5. A social studies teacher tells Shipler that the Jewish attitude is that 'we can do whatever we _________ with the Arabs."
(a) Want.
(b) Desire.
(c) Can.
(d) Like.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hartman states that biblical people are ______________, which can turn religion into a force of evil.

2. To improve the condition of the _________ would lesson the tension necessary to achieve statehood.

3. Those who are citizens of _________ are less feared than those people in the West Bank.

4. The college age Palestinian who was caught by Israeli patrol feared ___________, but experienced something different.

5. Shipler seeks to unravel the complexities of interaction by which the tiny minority of high-minded individuals strive to bridge the gap of ___________.

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. The college age Palestinian who was taken prisoner by the Israeli patrol found out what during his imprisonment?

3. What does Shipler say a great tangle of nonsense grows from in this chapter?

4. What leads to paranoia about what might be said by Arabs on the television or on the radio?

5. What happens as a result of rumors being spread of a female accomplice in the hostage situation at the start of the chapter?

6. What does Rabbi Hartman have to say about religion at the start of this chapter?

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

8. Why does the virulent bigotry in books, fiction and journalism not have much affect on the Arabs?

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

10. What does Shipler discuss as being the goal of terrorism amongst the Jews and Arabs?

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