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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Friedman's wife leave Beirut?
(a) She is evacuated by helicopter.
(b) She flies home.
(c) She is driven to Jerusalem.
(d) She is evacuated by boat.

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

3. How does Friedman get from Beirut to Jerusalem?
(a) By train.
(b) By a series of taxis.
(c) By a car driven by his Beiruti driver.
(d) By plane.

4. What marks the border between Israel and the West Bank?
(a) Signs.
(b) Rocks.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A fence.

5. What is the only Arab state that agrees to peace with the Israelis?
(a) Lebanon.
(b) Jordan.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Syria.

6. How many goals do Jewish leaders have after the end of World War II?
(a) One - a Jewish state.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

7. Why do the Israelis want to force the PLO out of Lebanon?
(a) Because they believe that the PLO is a military threat to Israel.
(b) Because they think the PLO causes unrest between Lebanon and Israel.
(c) Because they do not like Yasir Arafat.
(d) Because they think the Arabs in the settled lands will then have no voice to represent them.

8. Where does Ze'ev Chafets grow up?
(a) New York.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Chicago.

9. Israel and Palestine occupy news time out of proportion to their what?
(a) Size.
(b) Historic significance.
(c) Religious significance.
(d) Populations.

10. How often is Friedman's neighborhood shelled?
(a) Almost every night.
(b) At least once a month.
(c) At least once a week.
(d) At least two-three times a week.

11. When Friedman thinks back on his days in Beirut, what does he most often think of?
(a) The close calls he has had.
(b) The way the city changed.
(c) The shelling and the damage caused.
(d) The people and what he has learned from them.

12. Which rabbi believes that Judaism is a way of life, not a bunch of ritualistic practices?
(a) David Hartman.
(b) Nota Schiller.
(c) Eliezer Waldman.
(d) Shimon Tsimhe.

13. The intifada marks the beginning of what for the Palestinians?
(a) Economic disaster.
(b) Violence agains the Israelis.
(c) Solidarity.
(d) New Israeli rules.

14. How long does Friedman spend in Lebanon and Israel?
(a) Almost 10 years.
(b) Almost 7 years.
(c) Almost 15 years.
(d) Almost 5 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Older Palestinians grew up under the rule of what country or countries?

2. Who attacks the Friedman's on their way to lunch?

3. Why do Palestinians often have pictures of beaches or the Swiss mountains in their homes and businesses?

4. What is the spark or the event that sets off the Palestinian uprising that becomes known as the intifada?

5. Where is Rabbi Nota Schiller born and raised?

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