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Kurdish nationalism
  • 1. What does the term 'Kurdayetî' mean?
A) Kurdish rebellion
B) Kurdish territory
C) Kurdish independence
D) Kurdishness or Kurdism
  • 2. Which states currently contain territories that Kurdish nationalists wish to form into an independent Kurdistan?
A) Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey
B) Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Lebanon
C) Iran, Iraq, Armenia, and Turkey
D) Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Jordan
  • 3. Who led the uprising in 1880 that demanded autonomy or independence for Kurds?
A) Saddam Hussein
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Sheikh Ubeydullah
D) Sharif Pasha
  • 4. What is the primary reason the 1880 uprising led by Sheikh Ubeydullah was short-lived?
A) The leader was assassinated
B) The Kurds lacked weapons
C) It was never strategic nor unified
D) The Russian army intervened
  • 5. What major event in the early 20th century allowed the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan to promote a nationalist agenda?
A) The collapse of the Qajar dynasty
B) The Paris Peace Conference
C) The Treaty of Lausanne
D) The Second Constitutional Era of Turkey
  • 6. Which language group do researchers classify the Kurdish language under?
A) Caucasian
B) Semitic
C) Turkic
D) Indo-European
  • 7. Under the Ottoman millet system, what was the primary form of identification for Kurds?
A) Ethnic identification
B) Religious identification
C) Linguistic identification
D) National identification
  • 8. What was the result of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty regarding the Kurds?
A) It established a Kurdish protectorate
B) It granted the Kurds a state
C) It guaranteed Kurdish cultural rights
D) It made no mention of the Kurds
  • 9. Where was the first Kurdish political party, Khoybun, founded?
A) Istanbul
B) Baghdad
C) Ankara
D) Paris
  • 10. Why did the British focus more on the Armenians than the Kurds during the peace negotiations?
A) The British had no interest in Mesopotamian resources
B) Armenians had a larger military force
C) The Kurds were allied with the Nazis
D) Armenians were primarily Christian and identified with the West
  • 11. Who represented the Kurds at the Paris Peace Conference?
A) Sheikh Ubeydullah
B) Sir Percy Cox
C) General Muhammad Sharif Pasha
D) Bughos Nubar
  • 12. Which UN Security Council Resolution facilitated the creation of no-fly zones in Iraq?
A) 1441
B) 242
C) 688
D) 338
  • 13. What was the approximate death toll of the Anfal campaign?
A) 200,000–500,000
B) 50,000–100,000
C) 5,000–10,000
D) 10,000–20,000
  • 14. What organization was created after the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
A) Kurdish League
B) Kurdish Democratic Front
C) Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan
D) Kurdistan Regional Government
  • 15. What did the British Foreign Office study conclude about the partition of Kurdistan?
A) It was to be annexed entirely by the French
B) It was to be split into three sections with no rights for Kurds
C) It was to be kept as a unified, neutral buffer zone
D) It was to be granted full sovereignty
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