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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. Only a small percentage of Israelis identify themselves as _____________.
(a) Violent.
(b) Religious.
(c) Hopeful.
(d) Understanding.

2. Rarely, Shipler notes, does terrorism become an effective tool as it quickly becomes _______________.
(a) Routine.
(b) Unorganized.
(c) Simple.
(d) Violent.

3. Israeli Jews have mixed feelings about war's ________, whereas Arabs allow the Islamic concept of jihad.
(a) Violence.
(b) Feasability.
(c) Necessity.
(d) Morality.

4. 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) Religion.
(d) Ignorance.

5. The Lebanese women opposes a _________________ between Israel and Lebanon because this would result in an expansion of the Jewish state.
(a) Conversation.
(b) Compromise.
(c) Peace treaty.
(d) War.

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. Children tend to parrot the generalizations they hear and see, thus all __________ are Kahane and all Jews kill Arabs in refugee camps.

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

4. _____________ do not practice polygamy and enforce veiling of women as some Jews believe.

5. There is fear, but also ________ in the way that Israeli Jews view the Arab.

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