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. Shipler seeks to unravel the complexities of interaction by which the tiny minority of high-minded individuals strive to bridge the gap of ___________.
(a) Peace.
(b) Religion.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Understanding.

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

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

4. Shipler seeks to catalog the ___________ each side has of the other side.
(a) Images.
(b) Cultures.
(c) Education.
(d) Uses.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The opening at the beginning of the book is a wandering of the streets of ____________ from sunrise to high noon.

3. Shipler looks at the current textbooks and sees that there are no dialogues, just inflammatory ____________.

4. Israeli Jews have mixed feelings about war's ________, whereas Arabs allow the Islamic concept of jihad.

5. The King Hussein of _______ vows to work for peace and for security in the area.

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