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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Israeli Jews have mixed feelings about war's ________, whereas Arabs allow the Islamic concept of jihad.
(a) Morality.
(b) Feasability.
(c) Necessity.
(d) Violence.

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

3. Settlers also were determined to establish a purely ___________ way of life where they now resided.
(a) Jewish.
(b) Arabic.
(c) Fundamentalist.
(d) Monastic.

4. Shipler seeks to catalog the ___________ each side has of the other side.
(a) Uses.
(b) Education.
(c) Images.
(d) Cultures.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Shipler claims that at the time he and his family lived in Jerusalem, it was safer than _____________.

2. Rarely, Shipler notes, does terrorism become an effective tool as it quickly becomes _______________.

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

4. Rumors spread of a ___________ accomplice and foreign tourists fitting that description are rounded up for questioning.

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

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