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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. Why wasn't King Hussein able to continue his vision for peace and stability in the area?
(a) He was assassinated.
(b) He died of cancer.
(c) His treaty was not ratified.
(d) He left the country.

2. Shipler describes life in the Dheisheh __________ on the occupied West Bank where every aspect of life instills militancy in youth.
(a) Complex.
(b) Camp.
(c) Precinct.
(d) Ghetto.

3. _____________ is a nationalistic movement, whose political agenda is in continuity with the lamentation of the Jews exiled to Bablyon.
(a) Muslim pride.
(b) Zionism.
(c) Jihad.
(d) Judaism.

4. The 2002 _____________ shows that the area in the Middle East is growing steadily more complex and explosive.
(a) Postscript.
(b) Peace treaty.
(c) Promise.
(d) Prelude.

5. The official Israeli strategy is to destroy the ___________ as a means of evaporating Palestinian national aspirations.
(a) Schools.
(b) PLO.
(c) Government.
(d) Media coverage.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The twelve-year-old Palestinian notes that he has no ________ and no future.

4. Shipler begins to describe the history of the Palestinian and the Israeli ________ to help the reader gain perspective.

5. Shipler discusses censored passages from the ___________'s memoir shoring that the brutality was hardly unintentional.

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