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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ is the name of a prison camp constructed in southern Lebanon.

2. Shipler points out that few Arabs know anything about ___________ as it is not covered well, if at all, in school.

3. The young girl says she would like to learn how to __________, but she is too old for coeducational learning.

4. ____________ suffer more overt opposition from their parents than their partners do.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the rise of Islam the most significant external influence on the Jews, according to Shipler?

2. What are the two dangers being seen in interracial mingling between Arabs and Jews?

3. Why do some Jews oppose any vote for Israeli-Arabs?

4. After 45 days of imprisonment and torture, what did the young Palestinian swore he had done during that time?

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

6. What happens when Arabs and Jews are paired up and given large sheets of paper on which to paint?

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

8. Why are there no statistics on the intermarriages between Arabs and Jews?

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

10. Describe the conditions that Shipler found when he was allowed to go into Ansar.

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