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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. In May of 2001, Shipler asks students who they think the victims are in the conflicts. What do they all answer?
(a) No one.
(b) Arabs.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Jews.

2. A reporter Shipler brought with him to the prison camp was a survivor of ______________.
(a) Heart disease.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Polio.
(d) Cancer.

3. Which of these answers is the name for Israel's main overseas intelligence agency?
(a) Shin Beth.
(b) Neither.
(c) Mossad.
(d) Both.

4. ___________ seems to grip the imaginations of Muslim students, according to Shipler.
(a) Peace.
(b) Reconciliation.
(c) Martyrdom.
(d) Sadness.

5. Sexual experimentation with ____________ is attractive to Muslim males because of how their beliefs are structured.
(a) Each other.
(b) Older women.
(c) Muslim girls.
(d) Jewish girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Jewish children respond happened at school on days when soldiers burst into their classroom?

2. Under Muslim control, Jews adapted their _____________ to fit local conditions.

3. A young Palestinian asks to be called Gamal as he fears additional _________ if he is found.

4. Modern scholarship has debunked the myth that Jews and Arabs are _______________ related.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What happens when Arabs and Jews are paired up and given large sheets of paper on which to paint?

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

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

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