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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shipler focuses on the variety of ____________ at the Damascus Gate at the start of the book.
(a) Pain.
(b) Children.
(c) Life.
(d) Sadness.

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

3. The expulsion of all ____________ from the city is demanded as a result of the incident in Jerusalem.
(a) Children.
(b) Tourists.
(c) Jews.
(d) Arabs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. A Syrian prisoner of war wept when he realized that the kibbutzim were not the ___________ he had 'known' them to be.

4. Shipler describes the prison camp as a squalid _______, stinking of sewage and garbage.

5. Critics see no need to meet the enemy personally as they already know what ___________ are like.

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