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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is special about the West Bank and Gaza Strip lands to the Israelis?
(a) They represent the lands of biblical Israel.
(b) They are rich in minerals.
(c) They offer a buffer between Israel and Jordan.
(d) They have mostly Israeli people living there.

2. What is the Syrian government's main goal for the attack on Hama?
(a) To quell the Muslim Brotherhood's rebellion.
(b) To run the local Hama government.
(c) To take over the Muslim Brotherhood.
(d) To show how powerful they were.

3. Rabbi Eliezer Waldman is the founder of what movement?
(a) East Bank settlement movement.
(b) West Bank settlement movement.
(c) Solidarity movement.
(d) Haradim movement.

4. When does the Israeli invasion of Lebanon begin?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1975.

5. Problems in the Middle East represent a dream that is what?
(a) Not giving hope to people.
(b) Universal.
(c) Dying.
(d) Giving hope to people.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does a suicide bomber drive a truck into the U.S. embassy in Beirut?

2. Who wins the national election in 1984?

3. Who is the candidate of the Likud Party in the national election in 1984?

4. What is the subject Friedman gets his Master's degree in at Oxford?

5. Before 1984, what do many Beirutis attribute their problems to?

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