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

2. The expulsion of all ____________ from the city is demanded as a result of the incident in Jerusalem.
(a) Jews.
(b) Tourists.
(c) Arabs.
(d) Children.

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

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

5. As of the 2002 postscript, there is no lessening of the __________ desire to return to their homes.
(a) Israeli.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Arab.
(d) Government's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shipler seeks to unravel the complexities of interaction by which the tiny minority of high-minded individuals strive to bridge the gap of ___________.

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

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

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

5. The Arab-Israeli dispute is _________, but fundamentalism fans the flames.

(see the answer key)

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