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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. What do the Kahan Commission investigate?
(a) The Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
(b) The PLO.
(c) The Sabra and Shatila massacre.
(d) The Insraeli invasion of Beirut.

2. What does Begin do after his wife's death in November 1983?
(a) Goes to the United States.
(b) Resigns from government.
(c) Spends time in a kibbutz.
(d) Moves to Beirut.

3. What is the purpose of the PLO when it is formed?
(a) To provide an army to fight the Israelis.
(b) To provide a cover for terrorist activities.
(c) To give some voice to the Palestinians.
(d) To exert some control over the Palestinians.

4. Over time, who does Friedman learn to want to talk to for his information?
(a) The other journalists' fixers.
(b) The police.
(c) The people who will not accept him in their clubs.
(d) The people who work in the hotel.

5. According to Friedman, who is the first person who wants U.S. troops in Beirut?
(a) Sharon.
(b) Gemayel.
(c) Arafat.
(d) al-Wazzan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Friedmans fly to from Geneva at the beginning of the book?

2. What year is the flight the Friedmans take at the beginning of the book?

3. Friedman wins a Pulitzer Prize for his report on what?

4. Where does Friedman spend a summer studying in college?

5. Who is the ruler of Syria during the time of the Hama massacre?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is there support for the Israeli invasion from both political parties?

2. What happened at the Sabra and Shatilia refugee camps when the Israelis invaded West Beirut?

3. What happens to Arafat as the result of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon?

4. Why was the PLO successful when Arafat was in control?

5. Why does Friedman feel that in the early 1980s the PLO is presenting itself as a victim?

6. What did Friedman write in an article that upset the Marines?

7. What is the PLO?

8. What are three things that Friedman cites as differences between the Arabs and the Jews?

9. What two events happen immediately upon Friedman's return to Beirut in April, 1982?

10. At the time of Hama massacre, who/what group was in power in the Syrian government?

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