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