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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Shipler talks with several participants in a program called Interns for _______.
(a) Witnessing.
(b) Peace.
(c) Blessings.
(d) Convergence.

3. Interviews with Palestinians showed disappointment with the efforts to improve the people's plight by the ____________________.
(a) Palestinian Authority.
(b) European mediation.
(c) Arab Nations.
(d) Oslo Convention.

4. Shipler notes that a shift in tactics to assaults on select individuals backfired when applied to ___________ in the West Bank.
(a) Jews.
(b) Armies.
(c) Palestinians.
(d) Arab Muslims.

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

6. Wealthy Jews deride the Arabs as being ____________ and about being lazy.
(a) Dirty.
(b) Mannerless.
(c) Brash.
(d) Uncouth.

7. It is thought that Arabs are practical in daily life, but exaggerated in their ___________ life.
(a) Family.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Warrior.
(d) Business.

8. Elias Freij sees growing on the crest of the hills a new Jewish neighborhood, _________, whose architecture is not at all rooted in the land.
(a) Erza.
(b) Thera.
(c) Gilo.
(d) Philo.

9. As of the 2002 postscript, there is no lessening of the __________ desire to return to their homes.
(a) Government's.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Israeli.
(d) Arab.

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

11. Israeli hardliners play up the power of the Arabs, lest others try to understand their ____________.
(a) Culture.
(b) Beliefs.
(c) Motives.
(d) Greed.

12. A Lebanese woman opposed her father's speech, thanking the ___________ for liberating them from the PLO.
(a) Terrorists.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Arab army.
(d) Israeli army.

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

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

15. At this time of the first edition of this book, which flag was outlawed in terms of being permitted to be displayed?
(a) Palestinian.
(b) Neither.
(c) Both.
(d) Israeli.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shipler plans to reveal the broad forces in the area which contribute to ______________.

2. "If you have ______________, you must find a way to make peace..."

3. The Arab side if equally radicalized, but lacks a __________ for reason, like the Rabbi Hartman.

4. Shipler traces _______ waves of settles, none of whom felt any mystical attraction to the land.

5. What is dangerously high for the Arab population, causing concern for the Jewish inhabitants?

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