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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shipler says that a powerful fear of the alleged sexual __________ of Arab men is intermixed with all of the other stereotypes Jews hold.
(a) Prowess.
(b) Infertility.
(c) Impotence.
(d) Domination.

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

3. The man in the relationship portrayed in the radio program ends up entering a _________ and becoming a religious zealot.
(a) Mental institution.
(b) Gang.
(c) Church.
(d) Yeshiva.

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

5. Which of these answers is the name for Israel's main overseas intelligence agency?
(a) Both.
(b) Mossad.
(c) Neither.
(d) Shin Beth.

6. Another danger of interracial mingling, according to statements in this chapter, is the risk of ________.
(a) Rape.
(b) Damnation.
(c) Change.
(d) Melting pot societies.

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

8. On the first day, the students are told to do nothing but pass each other and _________________.
(a) Smile.
(b) Make eye contact.
(c) Touch hands.
(d) Greet each other.

9. The first image of fire is a small campfire that ____________ light as soon as they stop in a given place.
(a) Foreigners.
(b) Israelis.
(c) Nomads.
(d) Men.

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

11. The program allows teens to break down ___________ and confront stereotypes.
(a) Fears.
(b) Illusions.
(c) Worry.
(d) Barriers.

12. Because the tribesmen have no quarrel with the ____________, they are treated kindly, remarkably generously in the opinion of many of the Bedouin.
(a) Arabs.
(b) Women.
(c) Jews.
(d) Children.

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

14. The Proclamation of Independence called for ________ inhabitants to preserve the peace and to build the new state as equals.
(a) Jewish.
(b) All.
(c) Male.
(d) Arab.

15. Modern scholarship has debunked the myth that Jews and Arabs are _______________ related.
(a) Ethnically.
(b) Religiously.
(c) Spiritually.
(d) Biologically.

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. Which group was underrepresented at Neve Shalom when Shipler visited in 1984?

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

4. Israel keeps no statistics on ____________, according to Shipler's findings.

5. When one of two partners in the marriage converts, the ceremony is said to have taken place between two ____________.

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