- 1. Which city was a major center of Jewish learning in the early centuries of the Common Era?
A) Rome
B) Cairo
C) Jerusalem
D) Babylon
- 2. What year marks the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem?
A) 70 CE
B) 63 BCE
C) 586 BCE
D) 135 CE
- 3. What term describes the dispersion of Jews outside of Israel?
A) Ghetto
B) Aliyah
C) Diaspora
D) Zionism
- 4. What term is used to describe the anti-Jewish violence in Europe that began in the late 19th century?
A) Intifadas
B) Pogroms
C) Crusades
D) Ghettos
- 5. Which Middle Eastern city was the first to have a large-scale Jewish population starting in the Middle Ages?
A) Cairo
B) Istanbul
C) Algiers
D) Jerusalem
- 6. What was the purpose of the Balfour Declaration of 1917?
A) End Jewish migration to Europe
B) Create a Jewish army
C) Support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine
D) Establish a Jewish government in Egypt
- 7. Which Middle Eastern country has one of the oldest continuous Jewish communities?
A) Egypt
B) Syria
C) Iran
D) Iraq
- 8. Which Jewish movement began in the late 19th century aiming to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine?
A) Socialism
B) Zionism
C) Hasidism
D) Reform Judaism
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