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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Opinion polls in 2002 fluctuated around the 50% mark among Israelis over whether they could accept an independent ___________ state next door.
(a) Palestinian.
(b) Military.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Israeli.

2. _____________ is a nationalistic movement, whose political agenda is in continuity with the lamentation of the Jews exiled to Bablyon.
(a) Zionism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Muslim pride.
(d) Jihad.

3. Where did Arabs who were expelled from their villages in 1948 end up going?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) Refugee camps.
(c) Iraq.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

4. Settlers referred to their occupation of the territories as ______________.
(a) God's will.
(b) Liberation.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Effective.

5. Shipler ends the chapter by talking about the treatment of battle ______________ that afflicted many of the Israeli soldiers who fought in Lebanon.
(a) Flu.
(b) Wounds.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Infections.

Short Answer Questions

1. Israeli authorities monitor ___________ prayers in the mosques, warning imams not to preach on controversial subjects.

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

3. Shipler seeks to catalog the ___________ each side has of the other side.

4. Shipler wonders whether if his son had been killed during the incident if he would have hated all ____________ and craved revenge.

5. Both sides are represented by the stories of families reaching back in the disputed __________ for generations.

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