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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Shipler focuses on the variety of ____________ at the Damascus Gate at the start of the book.
(a) Children.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Pain.
(d) Life.

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

4. At this time of the first edition of this book, which flag was outlawed in terms of being permitted to be displayed?
(a) Israeli.
(b) Both.
(c) Neither.
(d) Palestinian.

5. Both sides, it seems to Shipler, have many ________, making a discussion of them all the more difficult.
(a) Children.
(b) Facets.
(c) Beliefs.
(d) Histories.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. ____________ is comfortable to both sides as everyone knows unambiguously whom to hate.

3. In response to the celebrations of the Israelis, the Arabs began to celebrate al-Nakba, which is translated to mean what?

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

5. Schools on both sides, Shipler says, continue to deal selectively with the creation of Israel, the ____________ of the conflict.

(see the answer key)

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