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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) The history of their people.
(d) Jewish struggles.

5. Shipler describes the similarity between a __________ ceremony with the Bedouin and a Jewish passover.
(a) Wine.
(b) Hand washing.
(c) Seder.
(d) Fish.

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

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

8. All teachers and government workers are required to receive clearance from the ____________, though mostly Arabs are regularly investigated.
(a) Mossad.
(b) Prime Minister.
(c) PLO.
(d) Shin Beth.

9. Some ____________ oppose any vote for Israeli-Arabs since they are exempt from military service.
(a) Women.
(b) Non-Israeli Arabs.
(c) Governments.
(d) Jews.

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

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

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

13. 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) Infertility.
(c) Prowess.
(d) Domination.

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

15. A publication in 1950 said that so many Christians had converted to Islam over the years that ________ blood was an acceptable substitute.
(a) Muslim.
(b) Atheist.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Christian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In May of 2001, Shipler asks students who they think the victims are in the conflicts. What do they all answer?

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

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

5. Sexual experimentation with ____________ is attractive to Muslim males because of how their beliefs are structured.

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