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