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

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

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

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

5. The official ___________ myth is that 700,000 Arabs fled their homes in 1948, freely giving up their rights.
(a) American.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Arab.
(d) Israeli.

Short Answer Questions

1. As of the 2002 postscript, there is no lessening of the __________ desire to return to their homes.

2. Shipler seeks to catalog the ___________ each side has of the other side.

3. At this time of the first edition of this book, which flag was outlawed in terms of being permitted to be displayed?

4. The opening of this chapter talks about the two day celebration of the Day of ____________.

5. Both sides, it seems to Shipler, have many ________, making a discussion of them all the more difficult.

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