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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shipler examines both sides' abandonment of the common ____________ of the desert.
(a) Ethics.
(b) Culture.
(c) Manners.
(d) Rules.

2. The opening of this chapter talks about the two day celebration of the Day of ____________.
(a) Honor.
(b) War.
(c) Souls.
(d) Remembrance.

3. 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.

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

5. Acts of violence lead to ___________, worst case assumptions and calls for retribution.
(a) Violence.
(b) Speculation.
(c) Talks.
(d) Committees.

6. Some Arabs make an intellectual effort to discredit Jewish claims to _______________ in the land.
(a) Places of worship.
(b) Homes.
(c) Families.
(d) Authentic heritage.

7. Through contact with individual __________, Arabs often soften their stance and realize the danger of their stereotyping.
(a) Children.
(b) Insurgents.
(c) Jews.
(d) Arabs.

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

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

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

11. "If you have ______________, you must find a way to make peace..."
(a) An argument.
(b) An enemy.
(c) A question.
(d) A problem.

12. It is believed that ______________ changed the Jews.
(a) Imperialism.
(b) Wars.
(c) The Torah.
(d) The Zionists.

13. The twelve-year-old Palestinian notes that he has no ________ and no future.
(a) Past.
(b) Home.
(c) Sense of belonging.
(d) Dreams.

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

15. Shipler wonders whether if his son had been killed during the incident if he would have hated all ____________ and craved revenge.
(a) Arabs.
(b) Jews.
(c) Whites.
(d) Tourists.

Short Answer Questions

1. A tiny number of Israelis understand ________, which leads to paranoia.

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

3. A Lebanese woman opposed her father's speech, thanking the ___________ for liberating them from the PLO.

4. A sociologist reports that in an integrated neighborhood, there is not tension, but there is notable ______________.

5. Four heavily armed _________ seize a hostage and then release him and then are pursued by the mob around them.

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