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

2. Shipler realizes there is no _____________ Israel or Palestine.
(a) Ideal.
(b) Paleolithic.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Monolithic.

3. Shipler notes that a shift in tactics to assaults on select individuals backfired when applied to ___________ in the West Bank.
(a) Jews.
(b) Armies.
(c) Arab Muslims.
(d) Palestinians.

4. Shipler has an extended analysis of ___________ as practiced by both the Arabs and the Jews.
(a) Consensus.
(b) Terrorism.
(c) Cultural cleanses.
(d) Peace making.

5. The opening of the chapter depicts an incident which took place on King _________ Street in Jerusalem.
(a) Thomas.
(b) Peter.
(c) George.
(d) Henry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Four heavily armed _________ seize a hostage and then release him and then are pursued by the mob around them.

3. The expulsion of all ____________ from the city is demanded as a result of the incident in Jerusalem.

4. Shipler examines both sides' abandonment of the common ____________ of the desert.

5. Israeli Jews have mixed feelings about war's ________, whereas Arabs allow the Islamic concept of jihad.

(see the answer key)

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