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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these answers is the name for Israel's main overseas intelligence agency?

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

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

4. Another danger of interracial mingling, according to statements in this chapter, is the risk of ________.

5. What is the name of the infamous publication that President Nasser used?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When you first read the title of this book, you were probably hit with a few images of each of these groups, whether accurate or not.

Part 1: Why do you think Arabs are perceived the way that they are?

Part 2: Why do you think Jews are perceived the way that they are?

Part 3: Why do you think you have certain images which come up in your mind when you hear the group names?

Essay Topic 2

The Arabs were expelled from their lands in 1948 and since then have wanted to return home, causing conflict and hard feelings.

Part 1: Do you think it was right to banish the Arabs from their lands in the first place? Why or why not?

Part 2: Do you think the Arabs have a right to go back to their homeland? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you think the expelled people must feel in a land which is not their own?

Essay Topic 3

The Arab stereotype includes the idea that they are just violent brutes who are also cowardly.

Part 1: Why do you think Arabs have gained the stereotypes that they have?

Part 2: Do you agree with this stereotype of the Arabs and how you perceive this group of people? Why or why not?

Part 3: What might be a better way to describe the Arab people which might be more realistic?

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