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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens at the Summerland Hotel during the fighting?

2. What is the subject Friedman gets his Master's degree in at Oxford?

3. What is the Green Line?

4. Where does much of Arafat's support come from?

5. When do the Hezbollah come into existence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Friedman's first story about in his high school paper?

2. Do all Jewish leaders favor creating two states - one for Jews and one for Arabs?

3. What is the PLO?

4. What happens to the planned peace march in 1984?

5. Why did the Marines return to Beirut and how were they received then?

6. What two suicide bombings occurred in 1983 against American targets?

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

8. Why did the press congregate at the Commodore Hotel?

9. Why did Friedman refer to Yasir Arafat as the "teflon guerrilla"?

10. Why did the Marines come to Beirut in August, 1982, and how were they received?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Friedman had some creative titles for the chapters of his book. Pick five of the chapters listed below. Explain the meaning and significance of the title and why Friedman would have chosen that title. Be specific with events, history,examples from the book, etc.

Would You Like to Eat Now or Wait for the Cease-fire?

Hama Rules

Inside the Kaleidoscope: The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

Betty Crocker in Dante's Inferno

Crosswinds

The Fault Line

The Earthquake

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the changes in the relationship between Israel and American Jews from the 1950s to the late 1980s. What are the reasons for the changes? Are these changes likely to be permanent?

Essay Topic 3

How are Lebanon and Israel the same? Different?

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