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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Intermarriages are illegal and must be conducted _______________.
(a) In a temple.
(b) In a mosque.
(c) In a basement.
(d) Outside the country.

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

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

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

5. Shipler points out that few Arabs know anything about ___________ as it is not covered well, if at all, in school.
(a) The wars.
(b) The Holocaust.
(c) Jewish struggles.
(d) The history of their people.

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

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

8. Where do the women on the radio program and her new partner meet during competing demonstrations?
(a) Government Square.
(b) Student Workshops.
(c) Temple.
(d) Hebrew University.

9. Another danger of interracial mingling, according to statements in this chapter, is the risk of ________.
(a) Rape.
(b) Change.
(c) Melting pot societies.
(d) Damnation.

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

11. Palestinians assume that their schools, jobs, villages, and refugee camps are filled with _____________.
(a) Informants.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Possibilities.
(d) Jews.

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

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

14. Prime Minister Begin says the __________ is intent on a second genocide against the Jewish people.
(a) Arabic wandering society.
(b) PLO.
(c) United Nations.
(d) Jewish leadership.

15. What do Jewish children respond happened at school on days when soldiers burst into their classroom?
(a) The place was destroyed.
(b) Soldiers were here.
(c) Nothing special.
(d) I feared for my life.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first image of fire is a small campfire that ____________ light as soon as they stop in a given place.

2. According to Shipler, during this time, who ranked below the national average in petty crime?

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

4. 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?

5. What allows the young people who have met each other to keep in contact?

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