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

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

3. Small __________ grants were what kept Neve Shalom in business over the years.
(a) Spanish.
(b) British.
(c) German.
(d) American.

4. All teachers and government workers are required to receive clearance from the ____________, though mostly Arabs are regularly investigated.
(a) Mossad.
(b) Prime Minister.
(c) Shin Beth.
(d) PLO.

5. The young girl says she would like to learn how to __________, but she is too old for coeducational learning.
(a) Read.
(b) Make more money.
(c) Do math problems.
(d) Draw.

Short Answer Questions

1. It's interesting to note that both Arabs and Jews are actually ____________.

2. One of the dangers of interracial mingling, according to statements made in this chapter, is the obscenity of ___________.

3. Israel keeps no statistics on ____________, according to Shipler's findings.

4. How long is the encounter for the teens who stay together at Neve Shalom?

5. A publication in 1950 said that so many Christians had converted to Islam over the years that ________ blood was an acceptable substitute.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why do the Bedouin light a small fire as soon as they stop in a given place?

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

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

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

10. Who did Shipler visit each time he went to Israel in 1993 and in 2001?

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