2002 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The official Israeli strategy is to destroy the ___________ as a means of evaporating Palestinian national aspirations.
(a) Schools.
(b) PLO.
(c) Media coverage.
(d) Government.

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

3. Both sides are represented by the stories of families reaching back in the disputed __________ for generations.
(a) Religion.
(b) Land.
(c) Government.
(d) Culture.

4. Interviews with Palestinians showed disappointment with the efforts to improve the people's plight by the ____________________.
(a) Oslo Convention.
(b) Arab Nations.
(c) Palestinian Authority.
(d) European mediation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Shipler claims that at the time he and his family lived in Jerusalem, it was safer than _____________.

2. Four heavily armed _________ seize a hostage and then release him and then are pursued by the mob around them.

3. The expulsion of all ____________ from the city is demanded as a result of the incident in Jerusalem.

4. Critics see no need to meet the enemy personally as they already know what ___________ are like.

5. A tiny number of Israelis understand ________, which leads to paranoia.

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