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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under Muslim control, Jews adapted their _____________ to fit local conditions.
(a) Beliefs.
(b) Families.
(c) Customs.
(d) Books.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By _________, however, students are feeling angry and personally betrayed.

2. Muslim females are not allowed to have _______________ even in their own faith.

3. Shipler says that a powerful fear of the alleged sexual __________ of Arab men is intermixed with all of the other stereotypes Jews hold.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shipler find a striking similarity between when this chapter begins?

2. What do Palestinians assume about their schools, jobs, villages, and even the refugee camps?

3. What do children's texts and street jokes seem to depict the Jew as?

4. Who did Shipler visit each time he went to Israel in 1993 and in 2001?

5. What are some of the things which the Israelis have done for the Sinai Bedouin?

6. Why does Tala reject the idea of meeting again with Jewish teens?

7. What did the government pour millions of dollars into, thought they would not support Neve Shalom?

8. Why was it witty for a Palestinian who claimed he was a target of anti-Semitism when targeted by anti-Arab bigotry?

9. Why do the Bedouin light a small fire as soon as they stop in a given place?

10. Why do Arabs know little about the Holocaust, according to Shipler?

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