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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. Problems in the Middle East represent a dream that is what?
(a) Universal.
(b) Not giving hope to people.
(c) Dying.
(d) Giving hope to people.

2. Whose bar mitzvah does Friedman attend in Ashkelon?
(a) His cousin Yitzhak's.
(b) His friend Chafets's.
(c) His cousin Giora's.
(d) His friend Shimon's.

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

4. When does television appear in Israel?
(a) 1970..
(b) 1968.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1965.

5. George Schultz travels to the Middle East to work out a peace settlement between what countries or groups?
(a) Jordan and Palestinians.
(b) Israel and Palestinians.
(c) Israel, Jordan, and Palestinians.
(d) Lebanon and Syria.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many goals do Jewish leaders have after the end of World War II?

3. Israel and Palestine occupy news time out of proportion to their what?

4. How does Friedman get from Beirut to Jerusalem?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the two things that Friedman cites as to why the world is interested in Israel?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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