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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. In May of 2001, Shipler asks students who they think the victims are in the conflicts. What do they all answer?
(a) Arabs.
(b) Jews.
(c) No one.
(d) Everyone.

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

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

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

5. With the rise of ___________ in the seventh century, an Arab-Jewish symbiosis flowered.
(a) Wars.
(b) Islam.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Judaism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Palestinians assume that their schools, jobs, villages, and refugee camps are filled with _____________.

2. One of the dangers of interracial mingling, according to statements made in this chapter, is the obscenity of ___________.

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

4. According to Shipler, during this time, who ranked below the national average in petty crime?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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