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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The first image of fire is a small campfire that ____________ light as soon as they stop in a given place.

3. What is the name of the infamous publication that President Nasser used?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A girl tells Shipler that she would like to learn to read, but that she is too old for coeducational schooling.

Part 1: Why do you think girls are only allowed to be in school up to a certain point?

Part 2: How does a society benefit from having a strong learning system?

Part 3: What might a women do if she has no education to use in her life? What are her options?

Essay Topic 2

The Arabs were expelled from their lands in 1948 and since then have wanted to return home, causing conflict and hard feelings.

Part 1: Do you think it was right to banish the Arabs from their lands in the first place? Why or why not?

Part 2: Do you think the Arabs have a right to go back to their homeland? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you think the expelled people must feel in a land which is not their own?

Essay Topic 3

What's interesting to note is that Shipler points out that not all groups are intolerant of others.

Part 1: Why do you think there is a perception that all religious groups have some sort of intolerance?

Part 2: Do you think it's fair to say that all Jews or all Arabs hate the other? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you think the groups might behave if they realized not everyone was intolerant of them?

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