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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom should be included in any peace negotiation, according to Boutros Bpoutros-Ghali?
(a) The United States.
(b) USSR.
(c) Egypt.
(d) The PLO.

2. What did the Arabs have to accept before negotiation could take place?
(a) The existence of Israel.
(b) They should accept whatever is given to them.
(c) They are not in position to make many demands.
(d) They lost the war.

3. When did Rabin address the Knesset about the signed agreement?
(a) September 21, 1993.
(b) September 21, 1994.
(c) September 21, 1996.
(d) September 21, 1995.

4. When did the Soviet start helping the Arabs?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1980s.

5. What needs to be achieve for a solution to the problems in the Middle East to be final, according to Part IV pp. 384-430?
(a) The Palestinian people must have a defined, permanent status.
(b) Israel must withdraw from occupied territories.
(c) Palestinians must be ready to make concessions.
(d) The U.S. must stop supporting Israel.

6. Where did Israel gain land in during the Yom Kippur War?
(a) Lebanon.
(b) Jordan.
(c) Syria.
(d) Egypt.

7. When was Hamas created, according to Part VI pp 529-576?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1986.

8. What did the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine refuse to take part in?
(a) The Washington Conference.
(b) The Berlin Conference.
(c) The Paris Conference.
(d) The Geneva Conference.

9. What must happen before either side can push for total autonomy of the Palestinian homeland according to the Israeli Foreign Minister of 1982?
(a) One side must surrender.
(b) Both sides need to coexist.
(c) One side must be destroyed.
(d) One side must win.

10. What peace plan did Egypt welcome?
(a) The Saudi Fahd Peace Plan.
(b) The Camp David Plan.
(c) The British Peace Plan.
(d) The Syrian Peace Plan.

11. Who was President of the United States in 1993?
(a) George Bush Senior.
(b) Al Gore.
(c) Ronald Regan.
(d) Bill Clinton.

12. When did the intifada begin?
(a) December, 1989.
(b) December, 1987.
(c) December ,1986.
(d) December, 1988.

13. What country was most of the occupied territory part of?
(a) Syria.
(b) Jordan.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Lebanon.

14. When did Hosni Mubarak become president of Egypt?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1980.

15. Who was the Israeli defense minister in December, 1981?
(a) Joseph alenberg.
(b) Ariel Sharon.
(c) Maurice Studd.
(d) Karl Kramer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Yasir Arafat address the U.N?

2. What did Walter Laqueur analyze?

3. What does Shamir refuse to do?

4. When did the Likud Coalition publish its position?

5. What did the Palestinian's realization in the 1990's make them accept?

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