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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. Who wins the national election in 1984?
(a) Shimon Perez.
(b) Golda Meir.
(c) The election is a tie.
(d) Yitzhak Shamir.

2. Friedman becomes the project of what rabbi?
(a) Shimon Tsimhe.
(b) Nota Schiller.
(c) Eliezer Waldman.
(d) Ze'ev Chafets.

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

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

5. What constraints begin from annexing the West Bank in 1977?
(a) The Labor Party.
(b) The Camp David Accords and the Syrians.
(c) The Israeli government.
(d) The Camp David Accords and the Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Friedman thinks back on his days in Beirut, what does he most often think of?

2. George Schultz travels to the Middle East to work out a peace settlement between what countries or groups?

3. Where is Friedman when he decides to leave Beirut?

4. Many people are more familiar with the geography of Israel than they are of the geography of what?

5. Where does Friedman take his family out for lunch before leaving?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the three goals of the Jewish leaders after the end of World War II?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Friedman tell us about the night he made the decision to leave Beirut?

10. Regarding the relationship between American Jews and Israel, what changes after the Six Day War?

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