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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Shipler says that a powerful fear of the alleged sexual __________ of Arab men is intermixed with all of the other stereotypes Jews hold.
(a) Impotence.
(b) Domination.
(c) Infertility.
(d) Prowess.

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

4. ____________ by non-Israeli Arabs sharpened the government's security concerns.
(a) Discussions.
(b) Assemblies.
(c) Peace.
(d) Terrorism.

5. When one of two partners in the marriage converts, the ceremony is said to have taken place between two ____________.
(a) Co-religionists.
(b) Hypocrites.
(c) Blasphemers.
(d) Outcasts.

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

7. 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?
(a) Rita.
(b) Reta.
(c) Mali.
(d) Tala.

8. The blood _______ which holds that Jews mix the blood of innocent Christian children into the dough for the Passover matzo.
(a) Myth.
(b) Book.
(c) Decree.
(d) Libel.

9. Jews were rarely oppressed or exterminated by Muslims as they were by _____________.
(a) Atheists.
(b) Other Jews.
(c) Christians.
(d) Wanderers.

10. What is the name of the infamous publication that President Nasser used?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Protocols of Zion.
(c) The Protocols of Israel.
(d) The Final Solution.

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

12. 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.

13. One of the dangers of interracial mingling, according to statements made in this chapter, is the obscenity of ___________.
(a) Mixed colors.
(b) Intermarriage.
(c) Children.
(d) Religious failings.

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

15. The program allows teens to break down ___________ and confront stereotypes.
(a) Worry.
(b) Fears.
(c) Illusions.
(d) Barriers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prime Minister Begin says the __________ is intent on a second genocide against the Jewish people.

2. A reporter Shipler brought with him to the prison camp was a survivor of ______________.

3. The man in the relationship portrayed in the radio program ends up entering a _________ and becoming a religious zealot.

4. Shipler describes the similarity between a __________ ceremony with the Bedouin and a Jewish passover.

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

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