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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. The Arab-Israeli dispute is _________, but fundamentalism fans the flames.
(a) Quiet.
(b) Calm.
(c) Secular.
(d) Simple.

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

3. Violence and counter violence have become not just byproducts of political battles, but also the origin of new __________.
(a) Anger.
(b) Directions.
(c) Rifts.
(d) Terrorist acts.

4. At this time of the first edition of this book, which flag was outlawed in terms of being permitted to be displayed?
(a) Both.
(b) Palestinian.
(c) Israeli.
(d) Neither.

5. Shipler deals with the Jewish stereotype that Arabs are violent, uncivilized ___________.
(a) Fighters.
(b) Brutes.
(c) Primitives.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shipler ends the chapter by talking about the treatment of battle ______________ that afflicted many of the Israeli soldiers who fought in Lebanon.

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

3. Shipler looks at the current textbooks and sees that there are no dialogues, just inflammatory ____________.

4. Shipler describes life in the Dheisheh __________ on the occupied West Bank where every aspect of life instills militancy in youth.

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

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