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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shipler explains that Middle Easterners have always felt the need to pigeonhole new acquaintances by their __________.
(a) Appearance.
(b) Cleanliness.
(c) Religion.
(d) Skin color.

2. Only a small percentage of Israelis identify themselves as _____________.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Hopeful.
(c) Violent.
(d) Religious.

3. During the takeover of the West Bank and Jerusalem in 1967, Arabs were surprised by how ___________ they were treated.
(a) Humanely.
(b) Harshly.
(c) Cruelly.
(d) Indifferently.

4. The Arab-Israeli dispute is _________, but fundamentalism fans the flames.
(a) Quiet.
(b) Secular.
(c) Simple.
(d) Calm.

5. What is the name of the infamous publication that President Nasser used?
(a) The Final Solution.
(b) The Protocols of Zion.
(c) The Protocols of Israel.
(d) The Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some Arabs make an intellectual effort to discredit Jewish claims to _______________ in the land.

2. The Lebanese women opposes a _________________ between Israel and Lebanon because this would result in an expansion of the Jewish state.

3. It's interesting to note that both Arabs and Jews are actually ____________.

4. Shipler traces _______ waves of settles, none of whom felt any mystical attraction to the land.

5. Shipler describes life in the Dheisheh __________ on the occupied West Bank where every aspect of life instills militancy in youth.

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