Makeup 1

1.

1 point

What ethnic group lives in the mountains of Turkey and Iraq?

Jews

Kurds

Shiites

Sunnis

2.

1 point

What world organization created the new state of Israel in 1948 as a homeland for the Jews?

the European Union

the United Nations

the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

the League of Nations

3.

1 point

What rivers are flowing through Turkey and Iraq?

Jordan and Tigris

Jordan and Euprates

Tigris and Euphrates

Red and Jordan

4.

1 point

What led to the end of the Ottoman Empire at the close of World War I?

The Empire spent too much money on building roads and went bankrupt.

The Ottomans were on the losing side of the war, along with Germany and Italy.

The people in the Empire were starving because a long drought had ruined agriculture.

The Ottoman government was overthrown by a revolt of factory workers who were unemployed when the war ended.

5.

1 point

What is Zionism?

the hope that all governments will be based on religious principles

the idea that all religious groups should have their own states

the plan to let Arabs and Jews share the land in Palestine equally

the belief that Jews deserved to return to a homeland in Zion where they had lived in Biblical times

6.

1 point

How did Arabs living in Palestine in 1948 feel about the creation of the new state of Israel?

They supported if fully.

They rejected it as unfair to them.

The Arabs population in Palestine was largely unaffected by the new state.

They agreed to try to work it out although they were unhappy about the decision.

7.

1 point

Who are the "Taliban"?

a par of the United Nations

a group of radical Muslims

the government of Kuwait

the government of Iraq

8.

1 point

Why did so many countries in the United Nations feel it was right to create Israel in 1948?

the murder of millions of Europeans Jews during World War II

the destruction of all European governments during World War II

the bombing of towns and villages in England and Germany during World War II

the Russians policy of burning ground behind them as they retreated to stop the German invasion

9.

1 point

Which describes the Holocaust?

The Russian policy of burning ground behind them as they retreated to stop the German invasion

the destruction of all European governments during World War II

the bombing of towns and villages in England and Germany during World War II

the murder of millions of Europeans Jews during World War II

10.

1 point

What desert covers most of northern Africa?

Sahel

Sahara

Gobi

Kalahari

11.

1 point

Why did the United States go to war against Iraq in 2003?

Iraqi troops launched an attack on Saudi Arabia, a close ally of the United States

The United Nations believed Iraq was about to invade Kuwait a second time.

Iraq was threatening Afghanistan with nuclear weapons.

The United States government saw the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, as a threat to peace and United States interests in the region.

12.

1 point

The tribe located in Ghana

Swahili

Bantu

Ashanti

Nazis

13.

1 point

How does literacy rate usually affect a nation's economy?

Countries with high literacy rates often have good economies.

Literacy rates have little effect on nation's economies.

A high literacy rate equals a poor economy.

People who can read do not contribute to the economy.

14.

1 point

Who drew up the boundaries of the new countries created from the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I?

Ottoman rulers

European rulers

Middle Eastern governments

United States