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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Some young upper class Arabs try to escape their _______ ways and try to emulate the West.
(a) Ethnic.
(b) Archaic.
(c) Backward.
(d) Boring.
2. Settlers referred to their occupation of the territories as ______________.
(a) Liberation.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Effective.
(d) God's will.
3. The book decides to show revelations about an area of the world which is too easy to ______________.
(a) Marginalize.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Mock.
(d) Forget.
4. A 13-year-old __________ boy is upset by the anti-Arab bigotry and is called a traitor, a PLO supporter and a communist.
(a) Nazarean.
(b) Arabic.
(c) Lebanese.
(d) Jewish.
5. Through contact with individual __________, Arabs often soften their stance and realize the danger of their stereotyping.
(a) Insurgents.
(b) Jews.
(c) Children.
(d) Arabs.
6. The __________ are the Zionists who founded Israel and control the government.
(a) Sihhphi.
(b) Israelites.
(c) Ashkenazim.
(d) Sephardim.
7. Shipler seeks to examine the interlocking ______________ that Jews and Arabs use to categorize each other.
(a) Stereotypes.
(b) Images.
(c) Cultures.
(d) Slurs.
8. Shipler wonders whether if his son had been killed during the incident if he would have hated all ____________ and craved revenge.
(a) Arabs.
(b) Tourists.
(c) Jews.
(d) Whites.
9. Shipler has an extended analysis of ___________ as practiced by both the Arabs and the Jews.
(a) Consensus.
(b) Cultural cleanses.
(c) Peace making.
(d) Terrorism.
10. Shipler describes how a _____________ prisoner was surprised when he could not discern any difference between a Sephardic and Ashkenazi guard.
(a) African.
(b) Palestinian.
(c) Lebanese.
(d) Jewish.
11. Interviews with Palestinians showed disappointment with the efforts to improve the people's plight by the ____________________.
(a) European mediation.
(b) Oslo Convention.
(c) Palestinian Authority.
(d) Arab Nations.
12. A Syrian prisoner of war wept when he realized that the kibbutzim were not the ___________ he had 'known' them to be.
(a) War camps.
(b) Governments.
(c) Centers of worship.
(d) Terrorism cells.
13. A 1984 commuter bus hijacking occurred, but the Israeli military censors imposed a complete _____________.
(a) Press coverage.
(b) List of demands.
(c) Blackout.
(d) Coverup.
14. The expulsion of all ____________ from the city is demanded as a result of the incident in Jerusalem.
(a) Jews.
(b) Arabs.
(c) Children.
(d) Tourists.
15. It is believed that ______________ changed the Jews.
(a) Wars.
(b) The Zionists.
(c) Imperialism.
(d) The Torah.
Short Answer Questions
1. Shipler traces _______ waves of settles, none of whom felt any mystical attraction to the land.
2. Shipler seeks to catalog the ___________ each side has of the other side.
3. Westernized _________ tend to be the most susceptible to political radicalism.
4. An Egyptian girl tells Shipler how surprised she was to find ______________ so Middle Eastern.
5. Rumors spread of a ___________ accomplice and foreign tourists fitting that description are rounded up for questioning.
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