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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. Who are considered to be fearsome, violent, immensely strong, cruel and cowardly?
(a) Jews.
(b) Arabs.
(c) Neither.
(d) Both.

2. Shipler examines both sides' abandonment of the common ____________ of the desert.
(a) Manners.
(b) Culture.
(c) Rules.
(d) Ethics.

3. Shipler does admit to finding much _______________ among the Arabs he visits, but little of the systematic vindictiveness described in the previous chapter.
(a) Bitterness.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Agreement.
(d) Rage.

4. Rumors spread of a ___________ accomplice and foreign tourists fitting that description are rounded up for questioning.
(a) Caucasian male.
(b) Female.
(c) Child.
(d) Asian male.

5. To improve the condition of the _________ would lesson the tension necessary to achieve statehood.
(a) Sanitation.
(b) Camps.
(c) Mosques.
(d) Temples.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shipler discusses censored passages from the ___________'s memoir shoring that the brutality was hardly unintentional.

2. Shipler seeks to unravel the complexities of interaction by which the tiny minority of high-minded individuals strive to bridge the gap of ___________.

3. Rabbi David Hartman is a ___________ philosopher who states that religion is naturally reactionary.

4. Settlers also were determined to establish a purely ___________ way of life where they now resided.

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

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