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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. Failing to understand the more reserved ____________ of the Ashkenazim, Arabs were unable to recognize authentic hospitality.
(a) Nature.
(b) Language.
(c) Rules.
(d) Homes.

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

3. Israeli authorities monitor ___________ prayers in the mosques, warning imams not to preach on controversial subjects.
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Tuesday.

4. Shipler does admit to finding much _______________ among the Arabs he visits, but little of the systematic vindictiveness described in the previous chapter.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Agreement.
(c) Rage.
(d) Bitterness.

5. Hartman states that biblical people are ______________, which can turn religion into a force of evil.
(a) Evil.
(b) Extremists.
(c) Ignorant.
(d) Close minded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is dangerously high for the Arab population, causing concern for the Jewish inhabitants?

2. Where did Arabs who were expelled from their villages in 1948 end up going?

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

4. Shipler explains that Middle Easterners have always felt the need to pigeonhole new acquaintances by their __________.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. And finally, what is Shipler's third goal for this book and for the reading audience as a whole?

9. Why does the Arab side of the argument lack a spokesperson for reason?

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

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