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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Opinion polls in 2002 fluctuated around the 50% mark among Israelis over whether they could accept an independent ___________ state next door.
(a) Palestinian.
(b) Israeli.
(c) Military.
(d) Peaceful.

2. Both sides, it seems to Shipler, have many ________, making a discussion of them all the more difficult.
(a) Beliefs.
(b) Facets.
(c) Histories.
(d) Children.

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

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

5. A Syrian prisoner of war wept when he realized that the kibbutzim were not the ___________ he had 'known' them to be.
(a) War camps.
(b) Governments.
(c) Centers of worship.
(d) Terrorism cells.

Short Answer Questions

1. __________ abounds on both sides, established by decades of war and terror, and individuals vary in how bigoted or tolerant they are.

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

3. A tiny number of Israelis understand ________, which leads to paranoia.

4. Both sides are represented by the stories of families reaching back in the disputed __________ for generations.

5. Shipler wonders whether if his son had been killed during the incident if he would have hated all ____________ and craved revenge.

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