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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 happens when the communications go dead after the PLO departure?
(a) Friedman goes into the street.
(b) Friedman misses his deadline.
(c) The shelling ends.
(d) The shelling begins.

2. Whose agreement does Friedman say is essential to an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories?
(a) The majority of American Jews.
(b) The U.S. government.
(c) The majority of the Israeli population.
(d) The Israeli government.

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

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

5. What do the Palestinians have to lose in their fight against the Israelis?
(a) Money.
(b) Land.
(c) Honor.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the hang-up in most Arab-Israeli negotiations?

3. After the Six Day War, what is the big way to raise money in Israel?

4. When do the Peace Day strikes occur?

5. When does Friedman's wife leave Beirut?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the reasons that Israel, Jordan, and Palestinians want George Schultz to come to the Middle East?

2. Why did one of Friedman's friends, upon his return to Israel, say that his two years in Germany were "relaxing"?

3. What moment of covering the news in Beirut sticks out in Friedman's mind?

4. In the epilogue, what does Friedman say about the Israeli/Palestinian situation with regards to settlement?

5. Why was the intifada a significant event in the Palestinian movement?

6. According to Friedman, is Israel a place to go to establish your Jewish identity?

7. What is the difference the Six Day War made to Israel without them even realizing it at the time?

8. What is Friedman's view of the Middle East that is shared by many people in Washington?

9. Has the subject of the Holocaust always been a subject of discussion in Israel?

10. What is the difference in the way Jews define or identify themselves in the United States vs. Israel?

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