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SW Asia History Blue
Contributed by: O'Byrne
  • 1. What is Zionism?
A) Laws that discriminated against Palestinians
B) Laws that discriminated against Jews
C) Movement to unite Jews and settle in Palestine
  • 2. What is anti-Semitism?
A) Movement to unite Jews and settle in Palestine
B) Laws that discriminated against Palestinians
C) Laws that discriminated against Jews
  • 3. Which of these is an example of anti-Semitism?
A) Jews in Germany had to wear stars to identify them as Jews
B) Jews of any nationality are guaranteed citizenship in Israel
C) Palestinians have to carry papers with them in Israel or be arrested
  • 4. How long has there been anti-Semitism in Europe?
A) Centuries
B) A few years
C) Decades
  • 5. How is the Holocaust related to the founding of modern Israel?
A) Palestinians fleeing WWII in Europe returned home to Palestine
B) People around the world were horrified that Jewish refugees couldn’t go to Palestine
C) European Jews founded Israel in Palestine
  • 6. What was the UN solution to the tension between Jewish settlers and Palestinians?
A) Give Palestine to the Jewish settlers
B) Divide Palestine into a Jewish country and a Palestinian country
C) Give Palestine back to the Palestinians
  • 7. Why were the British hesitant to let so many Jews settle in Palestine?
A) The Jews weren’t going to be able to farm
B) They wanted the Jews to return to Europe
C) Too many Jewish settlers made Britain’s Arab allies mad
  • 8. What was the Palestinian response to huge numbers of Jewish settlers immigrating to Palestine?
A) They all moved out and started a new country
B) They attacked the settlers
C) They voted to kick the settlers out
  • 9. Which form of Islam do Saudi Arabia and Turkey follow?
A) Shia
B) Intifada
C) Sunni
  • 10. Which of these nations is predominantly Shia (or Shiite)?
A) Iran
B) Iraq
C) Turkey
  • 11. What does "marginalized" mean?
A) to treat people as insignificant
B) to treat people as really important
C) to treat people as sort of important
  • 12. Which country did NOT contain part of Kurdistan
A) Syria
B) Turkey
C) Egypt
  • 13. Why did the USA invade Iraq in 1990?
A) To capture control of oil fields
B) To get Iraq out of Kuwait
C) To get Iraq out of Iran
  • 14. Why did Iraq invade its neighbor in 1990?
A) To spread Sunni Islam
B) To capture oil fields
C) To gain access to the Red Sea
  • 15. Why did the USA invade Afghanistan in 2001?
A) Afghanistan owed the US oil
B) The 9/11 terrorists were supported by Afghanistan
C) Afghanistan invaded Kuwait
  • 16. What is the Taliban?
A) Terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia
B) Government of Afghanistan
C) Government of Iraq
  • 17. Who was Osama binLaden?
A) Leader of al-Qaeda
B) Leader of Iraq
C) Leader of PLO
  • 18. In 2003, why did the USA invade Iraq?
A) US thought Saddam Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction
B) Iraq had oil fields that the USA needed
C) The 9/11 terrorists were supported by Iraq
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