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

2. Critics see no need to meet the enemy personally as they already know what ___________ are like.
(a) Jews.
(b) Tourists.
(c) Arabs.
(d) Foreigners.

3. The Arab side if equally radicalized, but lacks a __________ for reason, like the Rabbi Hartman.
(a) Committment.
(b) Direction.
(c) Promise.
(d) Spokesman.

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

5. Four heavily armed _________ seize a hostage and then release him and then are pursued by the mob around them.
(a) Iranians.
(b) Jews.
(c) Iraqis.
(d) Arabs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through contact with individual __________, Arabs often soften their stance and realize the danger of their stereotyping.

2. A sociologist reports that in an integrated neighborhood, there is not tension, but there is notable ______________.

3. The official Israeli strategy is to destroy the ___________ as a means of evaporating Palestinian national aspirations.

4. Children tend to parrot the generalizations they hear and see, thus all __________ are Kahane and all Jews kill Arabs in refugee camps.

5. _____________ is a nationalistic movement, whose political agenda is in continuity with the lamentation of the Jews exiled to Bablyon.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shipler explain about the Middle Easterners and what they have felt they need to do?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does the two day celebration of the Day of Remembrance celebrate according to the book?

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

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