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

2. A young Palestinian asks to be called Gamal as he fears additional _________ if he is found.
(a) Torture.
(b) Military service.
(c) Military retribution.
(d) Shunning.

3. Shipler describes the prison camp as a squalid _______, stinking of sewage and garbage.
(a) Hospital.
(b) Ditch.
(c) Place.
(d) Sore.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Jewish children respond happened at school on days when soldiers burst into their classroom?

3. ___________ guards at the camp range from brutal to humane, depending on the individual.

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

5. All teachers and government workers are required to receive clearance from the ____________, though mostly Arabs are regularly investigated.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who did Shipler visit each time he went to Israel in 1993 and in 2001?

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

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