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

2. The __________ are the Zionists who founded Israel and control the government.
(a) Ashkenazim.
(b) Israelites.
(c) Sephardim.
(d) Sihhphi.

3. Shipler looks at the current textbooks and sees that there are no dialogues, just inflammatory ____________.
(a) Stories.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) Comics.
(d) Pictures.

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

5. Shipler seeks to unravel the complexities of interaction by which the tiny minority of high-minded individuals strive to bridge the gap of ___________.
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Peace.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. A Syrian prisoner of war wept when he realized that the kibbutzim were not the ___________ he had 'known' them to be.

2. The labeling on ___________ published by both sides in textbooks continues to make clear that neither side yet accepts the reality that neither can covet the whole of the land.

3. Shipler concludes that only one side celebrates the liberation of _______________.

4. Wealthy Jews deride the Arabs as being ____________ and about being lazy.

5. Many Arabs can not deal with Jews whose own _________ prevent contact and study.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it said that conflict is comfortable to both sides of this area?

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

3. Unless a two state solution can be found, what will the population of Arabs to Jews be in the coming years?

4. What is the official Israeli myth which is dissected in the book which Shipler has written?

5. Where is the Israelis' rejection of Palestinianism shown, according to Shipler?

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

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

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

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

10. What do the Palestinians NOT do, even though many Jews say that they do?

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