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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 is the hang-up in most Arab-Israeli negotiations?
(a) The issue of water.
(b) The issue of religion.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) The issue of legitimate rights.

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

3. Where does Friedman go to write his story about the PLO departure?
(a) The Reuters office.
(b) His home office.
(c) His friend's home.
(d) The airport.

4. When does Israel first become important to Friedman?
(a) When he watches Walter Cronkite report on the Six Day War.
(b) When he writes an article on Israel in college.
(c) When he becomes a reporter.
(d) When he goes to a kibbutz during high school.

5. When does Friedman have an interview with Yasir Arafat?
(a) January, 1987.
(b) November, 1987.
(c) December, 1987.
(d) January, 1988.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Palestinians have to lose in their fight against the Israelis?

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

3. What is the first settlement in Hebron?

4. How many times while Friedman is in Beirut do the communications go dead?

5. What constraints begin from annexing the West Bank in 1977?

Short Essay Questions

1. Again regarding the relationship between American Jews and Israel, in what ways does the Six Day War change Israel?

2. How did Arafat and the PLO get involved once again in the Palestinian problem?

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

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

5. When, why, and how did Friedman's wife leave Beirut?

6. When Friedman thinks back on his days in Beirut, what does he think about?

7. Beginning with the first settlement in Hebron, how do many Jewish settlements come into being?

8. Why does Friedman say that the 1967 war was both a victory and in many ways a defeat for the Israelis?

9. Before the Six Day War, do Palestinians comply with Israeli rules in the occupied territories?

10. What are three differences between the situation with the Egyptians and Israelis and the Israelis and Palestinians?

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