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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 2002 _____________ shows that the area in the Middle East is growing steadily more complex and explosive.
(a) Postscript.
(b) Promise.
(c) Prelude.
(d) Peace treaty.

2. The book decides to show revelations about an area of the world which is too easy to ______________.
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Forget.
(c) Mock.
(d) Marginalize.

3. Shipler looks at the current textbooks and sees that there are no dialogues, just inflammatory ____________.
(a) Pictures.
(b) Stories.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) Comics.

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

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

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

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

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

5. As of the 2002 postscript, there is no lessening of the __________ desire to return to their homes.

(see the answer key)

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