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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. Rumors spread of a ___________ accomplice and foreign tourists fitting that description are rounded up for questioning.
(a) Asian male.
(b) Child.
(c) Caucasian male.
(d) Female.

2. Shipler traces _______ waves of settles, none of whom felt any mystical attraction to the land.
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

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

4. Shipler notes that a shift in tactics to assaults on select individuals backfired when applied to ___________ in the West Bank.
(a) Arab Muslims.
(b) Palestinians.
(c) Jews.
(d) Armies.

5. In response to the celebrations of the Israelis, the Arabs began to celebrate al-Nakba, which is translated to mean what?
(a) The Witness.
(b) The Celebration.
(c) The Catastrophe.
(d) The Peace Cry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Settlers referred to their occupation of the territories as ______________.

3. Shipler has an extended analysis of ___________ as practiced by both the Arabs and the Jews.

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

5. Shipler deals with the Jewish stereotype that Arabs are violent, uncivilized ___________.

(see the answer key)

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