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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "A __________ girl doesn't have to wait for an opportunity to move next door," said one Arab woman.
(a) Jewish.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Loose.
(d) Smart.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. On the first day, the students are told to do nothing but pass each other and _________________.
(a) Touch hands.
(b) Greet each other.
(c) Make eye contact.
(d) Smile.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ___________ seems to grip the imaginations of Muslim students, according to Shipler.

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

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

4. The Proclamation of Independence called for ________ inhabitants to preserve the peace and to build the new state as equals.

5. Shipler continues to find both groups of students hopefully ______________, trying to change their ways of thinking.

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