View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Shipler begins to describe the history of the Palestinian and the Israeli ________ to help the reader gain perspective.
(a) Tourists.
(b) Americans.
(c) Jews.
(d) Arabs.

3. Why wasn't King Hussein able to continue his vision for peace and stability in the area?
(a) His treaty was not ratified.
(b) He left the country.
(c) He died of cancer.
(d) He was assassinated.

4. _____________ is a nationalistic movement, whose political agenda is in continuity with the lamentation of the Jews exiled to Bablyon.
(a) Judaism.
(b) Jihad.
(c) Zionism.
(d) Muslim pride.

5. Shipler seeks to unravel the complexities of interaction by which the tiny minority of high-minded individuals strive to bridge the gap of ___________.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Peace.
(c) Religion.
(d) Ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shipler ends the chapter by talking about the treatment of battle ______________ that afflicted many of the Israeli soldiers who fought in Lebanon.

2. Shipler realizes there is no _____________ Israel or Palestine.

3. Both sides are represented by the stories of families reaching back in the disputed __________ for generations.

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

5. Shipler discusses censored passages from the ___________'s memoir shoring that the brutality was hardly unintentional.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 227 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample