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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To improve the condition of the _________ would lesson the tension necessary to achieve statehood.
(a) Camps.
(b) Mosques.
(c) Sanitation.
(d) Temples.

2. Rarely, Shipler notes, does terrorism become an effective tool as it quickly becomes _______________.
(a) Routine.
(b) Unorganized.
(c) Violent.
(d) Simple.

3. Terrorism is meant to be ___________________, not intended to harm individual victims.
(a) A message.
(b) Bloody.
(c) Theater.
(d) Tremendous.

4. Children tend to parrot the generalizations they hear and see, thus all __________ are Kahane and all Jews kill Arabs in refugee camps.
(a) Terrorists.
(b) Women.
(c) Rabbis.
(d) Children.

5. Israeli Jews have mixed feelings about war's ________, whereas Arabs allow the Islamic concept of jihad.
(a) Violence.
(b) Feasability.
(c) Necessity.
(d) Morality.

6. Shipler focuses on the variety of ____________ at the Damascus Gate at the start of the book.
(a) Pain.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Life.
(d) Children.

7. The college age Palestinian who was caught by Israeli patrol feared ___________, but experienced something different.
(a) Slaughter.
(b) Torture.
(c) Retribution.
(d) Indoctrination.

8. The King Hussein of _______ vows to work for peace and for security in the area.
(a) Jordan.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Israel.
(d) Pakistan.

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

10. Rabbi David Hartman is a ___________ philosopher who states that religion is naturally reactionary.
(a) New Age.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Western.

11. A journalist states that ______ are so used to having enemies that hey are suspicious when someone tries to be their friend.
(a) Arabs.
(b) Women.
(c) Armies.
(d) Jews.

12. Shipler deals with the Jewish stereotype that Arabs are violent, uncivilized ___________.
(a) Primitives.
(b) Fighters.
(c) Men.
(d) Brutes.

13. When the enemy has no _______________, it makes the hatred and bigotry easier.
(a) Family.
(b) Honor.
(c) Face.
(d) Name.

14. Others charge that the Jews are agents of _______________, whether capitalistic or communist, and will distance Arabs from religious life.
(a) Change.
(b) Government.
(c) Bureacracy.
(d) Materialism.

15. ___________ arguments carry little weight, even among extreme West Bank settlers.
(a) Biblical.
(b) Government.
(c) Theoretical.
(d) Academic.

Short Answer Questions

1. The twelve-year-old Palestinian notes that he has no ________ and no future.

2. Israeli children grow up with the lasting impression that Arabs are a colorful, menacing _____________.

3. In response to the celebrations of the Israelis, the Arabs began to celebrate al-Nakba, which is translated to mean what?

4. Violence and counter violence have become not just byproducts of political battles, but also the origin of new __________.

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

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