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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 Proclamation of Independence called for ________ inhabitants to preserve the peace and to build the new state as equals.
(a) All.
(b) Male.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Arab.

2. Shipler points out that few Arabs know anything about ___________ as it is not covered well, if at all, in school.
(a) The Holocaust.
(b) Jewish struggles.
(c) The wars.
(d) The history of their people.

3. There is fear, but also ________ in the way that Israeli Jews view the Arab.
(a) Terror.
(b) Fascination.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Intimidation.

4. Shipler does admit to finding much _______________ among the Arabs he visits, but little of the systematic vindictiveness described in the previous chapter.
(a) Agreement.
(b) Bitterness.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Rage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Settlers referred to their occupation of the territories as ______________.

2. Israelis were disappointed that the Arab TV show wasn't broadcast in the West so that the viewers could see how _______ the Arabs are.

3. ____________ by non-Israeli Arabs sharpened the government's security concerns.

4. Shipler looks at the current textbooks and sees that there are no dialogues, just inflammatory ____________.

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

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