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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. Settlers referred to their occupation of the territories as ______________.
(a) Effective.
(b) Liberation.
(c) God's will.
(d) Spiritual.

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

3. Four heavily armed _________ seize a hostage and then release him and then are pursued by the mob around them.
(a) Arabs.
(b) Iraqis.
(c) Iranians.
(d) Jews.

4. Shipler discusses censored passages from the ___________'s memoir shoring that the brutality was hardly unintentional.
(a) Field commander.
(b) Mayor.
(c) Commander's wife.
(d) Army.

5. The opening of this chapter talks about the two day celebration of the Day of ____________.
(a) Honor.
(b) Remembrance.
(c) Souls.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Schools on both sides, Shipler says, continue to deal selectively with the creation of Israel, the ____________ of the conflict.

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

4. Shipler focuses on the variety of ____________ at the Damascus Gate at the start of the book.

5. Why wasn't King Hussein able to continue his vision for peace and stability in the area?

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