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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice 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 ___________.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Peace.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Religion.

2. Shipler traces _______ waves of settles, none of whom felt any mystical attraction to the land.
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

3. It is believed that ______________ changed the Jews.
(a) Imperialism.
(b) The Torah.
(c) Wars.
(d) The Zionists.

4. Those who are citizens of _________ are less feared than those people in the West Bank.
(a) Iraq.
(b) Iran.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Israel.

5. Shipler realizes there is no _____________ Israel or Palestine.
(a) Paleolithic.
(b) Ideal.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Monolithic.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author observes that a "great tangle of nonsense grows from a seed of __________."

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

3. The opening at the beginning of the book is a wandering of the streets of ____________ from sunrise to high noon.

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

5. At this time of the first edition of this book, which flag was outlawed in terms of being permitted to be displayed?

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