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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. ____________ is comfortable to both sides as everyone knows unambiguously whom to hate.
(a) Peace.
(b) Government.
(c) Conflict.
(d) Bigotry.

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

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

4. 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) Patient zero.
(d) Original sin.

5. To improve the condition of the _________ would lesson the tension necessary to achieve statehood.
(a) Mosques.
(b) Temples.
(c) Sanitation.
(d) Camps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Interviews with Palestinians showed disappointment with the efforts to improve the people's plight by the ____________________.

2. When the enemy has no _______________, it makes the hatred and bigotry easier.

3. The official ___________ myth is that 700,000 Arabs fled their homes in 1948, freely giving up their rights.

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

5. Shipler plans to reveal the broad forces in the area which contribute to ______________.

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