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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 narrator writes that the European elite is so removed from the realities of international affairs, and so bothered by their irrelevance in them, that they were incapable of what?
(a) Responding to the 9/11 tragedies.
(b) Having any sympathy for the 9/11 tragedies.
(c) Protecting their own cities from the Muslims.
(d) Understanding how the Muslims could have been responsible for the 9/11 tragedies.

2. Bush was whose puppet, according to some Europeans?
(a) The American people's.
(b) Israel's.
(c) The Muslim's.
(d) His father's.

3. What belief is cultivated in the Muslim culture?
(a) An us versus them belief.
(b) Europe is safe.
(c) Europe is just like America.
(d) A desire to join European society.

4. She argued that if Europe continues to do what, the result will be the "preservation of the migrant's separateness, particularisms," and reason for them to maintain the legal ideals of their countries of origin?
(a) Judge others by their beliefs.
(b) Be influenced by American thinking.
(c) Not allow Arab immigrants into their countries.
(d) Accept Arab immigrants without helping or making them integrate.

5. These Muslims are mostly of _________ descent.
(a) Saudi Arabian.
(b) West African.
(c) North African.
(d) Afghani.

Short Answer Questions

1. Paris is becoming more of ________ city every day.

2. If a job opens up for a doctor or an educator, and a Muslim is exceedingly more qualified than ten of his or her European colleagues, the job will more likely go to whom?

3. The United States sees immigrants as assets to be integrated into the culture. How do Europeans view immigrants?

4. Why have Europeans not diverged from this view regarding the government?

5. The ______________________ attitude seems to Bawer to be a positive thing until he noticed the social effects of it.

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the author, there is a clear difference between American and European thinking. What is this difference?

2. What is a cultural practice among Muslims that would be legally punished if practiced by other groups in European countries? What is Wikan's response to this?

3. Describe Muslim immigrants.

4. Why do Europeans want to avoid war? How does this desire affect them?

5. Describe immigration and integration in Europe.

6. How else does the author say about France and its Muslim population?

7. Why are Europeans wrong in assuming that any immigrants would eventually "melt" into the general culture of the country in which they settle?

8. What did the narrator encounter in Norway?

9. Do Europeans embrace each other's cultures?

10. What are young Islamists taught?

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