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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. What is another name for the day on which the people honor the country's war dead?
(a) Memorial Day.
(b) Independence Day.
(c) Jihad Day.
(d) Treatise Day.

2. Shipler discusses censored passages from the ___________'s memoir shoring that the brutality was hardly unintentional.
(a) Army.
(b) Field commander.
(c) Mayor.
(d) Commander's wife.

3. The newborn state of __________ in 1948 pledged to uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens.
(a) Israel.
(b) Nazareth.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) Jerusalem.

4. According to Shipler, during this time, who ranked below the national average in petty crime?
(a) Israeli-Arabs.
(b) Arabs.
(c) No one.
(d) Jews.

5. The young girl says she would like to learn how to __________, but she is too old for coeducational learning.
(a) Read.
(b) Make more money.
(c) Draw.
(d) Do math problems.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. _________ is the name of a prison camp constructed in southern Lebanon.

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

4. Rarely, Shipler notes, does terrorism become an effective tool as it quickly becomes _______________.

5. All teachers and government workers are required to receive clearance from the ____________, though mostly Arabs are regularly investigated.

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