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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. Another danger of interracial mingling, according to statements in this chapter, is the risk of ________.
(a) Melting pot societies.
(b) Rape.
(c) Change.
(d) Damnation.

2. Under Muslim control, Jews adapted their _____________ to fit local conditions.
(a) Families.
(b) Books.
(c) Beliefs.
(d) Customs.

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

4. 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?
(a) Mali.
(b) Rita.
(c) Tala.
(d) Reta.

5. Ancient Greeks and modern Europeans both sought to assimilate the ___________.
(a) Arab.
(b) Jew.
(c) Muslims.
(d) Christians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What allows the young people who have met each other to keep in contact?

2. _________ is the name of a prison camp constructed in southern Lebanon.

3. Intermarriages are illegal and must be conducted _______________.

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

5. Which group was underrepresented at Neve Shalom when Shipler visited in 1984?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shipler find a striking similarity between when this chapter begins?

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

3. What are almost all mixed marriages comprised of in terms of gender and religion?

4. Why are there no statistics on the intermarriages between Arabs and Jews?

5. What do Palestinians assume about their schools, jobs, villages, and even the refugee camps?

6. What are some of the things which the Israelis have done for the Sinai Bedouin?

7. Why does Tala reject the idea of meeting again with Jewish teens?

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

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

10. Why do Arabs know little about the Holocaust, according to Shipler?

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