2002 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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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. 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.

2. The twelve-year-old Palestinian notes that he has no ________ and no future.
(a) Sense of belonging.
(b) Past.
(c) Home.
(d) Dreams.

3. Schools on both sides, Shipler says, continue to deal selectively with the creation of Israel, the ____________ of the conflict.
(a) Patient zero.
(b) High point.
(c) Original sin.
(d) Ending.

4. 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.

5. Four heavily armed _________ seize a hostage and then release him and then are pursued by the mob around them.
(a) Arabs.
(b) Iraqis.
(c) Jews.
(d) Iranians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shipler concludes that only one side celebrates the liberation of _______________.

2. As of the 2002 postscript, there is no lessening of the __________ desire to return to their homes.

3. Shipler realizes there is no _____________ Israel or Palestine.

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

5. To improve the condition of the _________ would lesson the tension necessary to achieve statehood.

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