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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. One of the dangers of interracial mingling, according to statements made in this chapter, is the obscenity of ___________.
(a) Religious failings.
(b) Mixed colors.
(c) Children.
(d) Intermarriage.

2. What allows the young people who have met each other to keep in contact?
(a) Videos.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The Internet.
(d) Letters.

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

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

5. In May of 2001, Shipler asks students who they think the victims are in the conflicts. What do they all answer?
(a) Arabs.
(b) No one.
(c) Jews.
(d) Everyone.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Jews were rarely oppressed or exterminated by Muslims as they were by _____________.

4. The small fires which are lit help to ________ and to delimit the vast expanses of land.

5. Small __________ grants were what kept Neve Shalom in business over the years.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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