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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With the rise of ___________ in the seventh century, an Arab-Jewish symbiosis flowered.
(a) Wars.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Christianity.

2. The small fires which are lit help to ________ and to delimit the vast expanses of land.
(a) Focus.
(b) Break up.
(c) Narrow.
(d) Confuse.

3. Which of these answers is the name for the organization which handles internal police matters?
(a) Shin Beth.
(b) Mossad.
(c) Both.
(d) Neither.

4. Shipler continues to find both groups of students hopefully ______________, trying to change their ways of thinking.
(a) Civil.
(b) Resilient.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Skeptical.

5. Camel caravans used to take 18 days to reach Cairo, so they would only occur __________ times a year.
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

6. The man in the relationship portrayed in the radio program ends up entering a _________ and becoming a religious zealot.
(a) Church.
(b) Yeshiva.
(c) Gang.
(d) Mental institution.

7. Because the tribesmen have no quarrel with the ____________, they are treated kindly, remarkably generously in the opinion of many of the Bedouin.
(a) Children.
(b) Jews.
(c) Women.
(d) Arabs.

8. Muslim females are not allowed to have _______________ even in their own faith.
(a) Premarital intimacy.
(b) Unarranged marriages.
(c) Touching.
(d) Boyfriends.

9. Neve Shalom was conceived in 1970 as an ___________ community.
(a) Intrusive.
(b) Interfaith.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Integrated.

10. Shipler describes the prison camp as a squalid _______, stinking of sewage and garbage.
(a) Ditch.
(b) Hospital.
(c) Sore.
(d) Place.

11. _________ is the name of a prison camp constructed in southern Lebanon.
(a) Ansar.
(b) Anwar.
(c) Tugoht.
(d) Phiillt.

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

13. What allows the young people who have met each other to keep in contact?
(a) The Internet.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Videos.
(d) Letters.

14. Which group was underrepresented at Neve Shalom when Shipler visited in 1984?
(a) Men.
(b) Jews.
(c) Muslims.
(d) Women.

15. How long is the encounter for the teens who stay together at Neve Shalom?
(a) Four days.
(b) A month.
(c) A year.
(d) A week.

Short Answer Questions

1. "A __________ girl doesn't have to wait for an opportunity to move next door," said one Arab woman.

2. 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?

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

4. Shipler says that a powerful fear of the alleged sexual __________ of Arab men is intermixed with all of the other stereotypes Jews hold.

5. Palestinians assume that their schools, jobs, villages, and refugee camps are filled with _____________.

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