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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The official ___________ myth is that 700,000 Arabs fled their homes in 1948, freely giving up their rights.
(a) Israeli.
(b) American.
(c) Arab.
(d) Muslim.

2. ____________ by non-Israeli Arabs sharpened the government's security concerns.
(a) Discussions.
(b) Assemblies.
(c) Peace.
(d) Terrorism.

3. Settlers referred to their occupation of the territories as ______________.
(a) God's will.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Liberation.
(d) Effective.

4. Four heavily armed _________ seize a hostage and then release him and then are pursued by the mob around them.
(a) Jews.
(b) Iranians.
(c) Iraqis.
(d) Arabs.

5. Shipler ends the chapter by talking about the treatment of battle ______________ that afflicted many of the Israeli soldiers who fought in Lebanon.
(a) Wounds.
(b) Infections.
(c) Flu.
(d) Fatigue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Israeli Jews have mixed feelings about war's ________, whereas Arabs allow the Islamic concept of jihad.

2. Hartman states that biblical people are ______________, which can turn religion into a force of evil.

3. Both sides, it seems to Shipler, have many ________, making a discussion of them all the more difficult.

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

5. Under Muslim control, Jews adapted their _____________ to fit local conditions.

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