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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. A teenage Bedouin girl asks for a ride back to the herd of ________ she tends.
(a) Camels.
(b) Sheep.
(c) Horses.
(d) Goats.

4. Some ____________ oppose any vote for Israeli-Arabs since they are exempt from military service.
(a) Non-Israeli Arabs.
(b) Jews.
(c) Women.
(d) Governments.

5. Religious opposition to ___________ is fused with the Western theme of scheming to control international banking, politics, and news.
(a) Usury.
(b) Holidays.
(c) Preaching.
(d) Converting.

Short Answer Questions

1. With the rise of ___________ in the seventh century, an Arab-Jewish symbiosis flowered.

2. ___________ guards at the camp range from brutal to humane, depending on the individual.

3. What is the name of the Palestinian girl who found connections with a group of Jewish girls, only to disconnect from them after the sieges of Ramallah?

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

5. The small fires which are lit help to ________ and to delimit the vast expanses of land.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do some Jews oppose any vote for Israeli-Arabs?

2. Describe the conditions that Shipler found when he was allowed to go into Ansar.

3. Why is sexual experimentation with Jewish girls attractive to Muslim males?

4. After 45 days of imprisonment and torture, what did the young Palestinian swore he had done during that time?

5. What did the government pour millions of dollars into, thought they would not support Neve Shalom?

6. Why was the rise of Islam the most significant external influence on the Jews, according to Shipler?

7. What do children's texts and street jokes seem to depict the Jew as?

8. What are the two dangers being seen in interracial mingling between Arabs and Jews?

9. What does the Proclamation of Independence call on Arabs to do?

10. Why was it witty for a Palestinian who claimed he was a target of anti-Semitism when targeted by anti-Arab bigotry?

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