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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A publication in 1950 said that so many Christians had converted to Islam over the years that ________ blood was an acceptable substitute.

2. Ancient Greeks and modern Europeans both sought to assimilate the ___________.

3. A young Palestinian asks to be called Gamal as he fears additional _________ if he is found.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the Proclamation of Independence call on Arabs to do?

6. Why is sexual experimentation with Jewish girls attractive to Muslim males?

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

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

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

10. What are almost all mixed marriages comprised of in terms of gender and religion?

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