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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. Camel caravans used to take 18 days to reach Cairo, so they would only occur __________ times a year.
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

2. A reporter Shipler brought with him to the prison camp was a survivor of ______________.
(a) Cancer.
(b) Polio.
(c) Heart disease.
(d) Auschwitz.

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

4. 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) Domination.
(c) Infertility.
(d) Impotence.

5. Shipler points out that few Arabs know anything about ___________ as it is not covered well, if at all, in school.
(a) The Holocaust.
(b) The wars.
(c) The history of their people.
(d) Jewish struggles.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. "A __________ girl doesn't have to wait for an opportunity to move next door," said one Arab woman.

4. ____________ by non-Israeli Arabs sharpened the government's security concerns.

5. The Proclamation of Independence called for ________ inhabitants to preserve the peace and to build the new state as equals.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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