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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Israel keeps no statistics on ____________, according to Shipler's findings.
(a) Births.
(b) Land ownership.
(c) Intermarriages.
(d) Marriage.

3. Zohar says that if his parents had not remained in Israel, he would have become a ___________ in the refugee camps.
(a) Wanderer.
(b) Prisoner.
(c) Guerrilla.
(d) Cook.

4. Modern scholarship has debunked the myth that Jews and Arabs are _______________ related.
(a) Ethnically.
(b) Religiously.
(c) Spiritually.
(d) Biologically.

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

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

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

8. The newborn state of __________ in 1948 pledged to uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens.
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Israel.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) Nazareth.

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

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

11. By _________, however, students are feeling angry and personally betrayed.
(a) 1993.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1990.

12. It's interesting to note that both Arabs and Jews are actually ____________.
(a) Religious.
(b) Semites.
(c) Related.
(d) The same.

13. ___________ guards at the camp range from brutal to humane, depending on the individual.
(a) European.
(b) African.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Israeli.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the women on the radio program and her new partner meet during competing demonstrations?

2. ____________ suffer more overt opposition from their parents than their partners do.

3. Because the tribesmen have no quarrel with the ____________, they are treated kindly, remarkably generously in the opinion of many of the Bedouin.

4. A witty Palestinian claimed he was a victim of ___________ when targeted by anti-Arab bigotry.

5. All teachers and government workers are required to receive clearance from the ____________, though mostly Arabs are regularly investigated.

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