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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. The small fires which are lit help to ________ and to delimit the vast expanses of land.
(a) Confuse.
(b) Narrow.
(c) Focus.
(d) Break up.

2. It's interesting to note that both Arabs and Jews are actually ____________.
(a) Religious.
(b) The same.
(c) Related.
(d) Semites.

3. Which of these answers is the name for the organization which handles internal police matters?
(a) Neither.
(b) Both.
(c) Shin Beth.
(d) Mossad.

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

5. _________ is the name of a prison camp constructed in southern Lebanon.
(a) Anwar.
(b) Ansar.
(c) Tugoht.
(d) Phiillt.

Short Answer Questions

1. The program allows teens to break down ___________ and confront stereotypes.

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

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

4. Under Muslim control, Jews adapted their _____________ to fit local conditions.

5. Shipler continues to find both groups of students hopefully ______________, trying to change their ways of thinking.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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