What did the United Nations propose be done to Palestine after World War II ?

A. create an Arab state with a secular government where Jews could also live

B. create a state for Jewish settlers in response to the Zionist movement

C. divide Palestine into two states—one for the Jews and one for the Arabs

D. divide Palestine into two parts—a Jewish state and an Arab mandate

2. Why did Arab armies invade Israel in 1948?

A. They wanted to reclaim the region for Palestinian Arabs.

B. They wanted to force Israel to accept the Palestinian state.

C. They wanted to create one, large secular Arab nation.

D. They wanted to establish an Islamist government in Palestine.

3. What is not a consequence of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War?

A. Many Arabs began blaming the West for the region’s conflicts.

B. Thousands of Palestinians became refugees.

C. Israel tripled in size, including the addition of the Sinai Peninsula.

D. Israel’s Arab neighbors refused to recognize Israel’s right to exist.

4. Which group of people describes who the Palestinians are today, living in the Middle East and originally from Palestine (or can trace their ancestry back to Palestine)?

A. Persian

B. Arab

C. Christian

D. Jewish

5. What did Gamal Abdul Nasser believed that Arab nations should be?

A. be run by powerful, royal families

B. divide their societies into different classes

C. all base their governments on Islamic law

D. be politically united in their actions

6. How were the Baathists similar to Nasser?

A. Both worked toward the creation of an independent Palestinian state.

B. Both believed the only way the Arab world could unite was if Israel were destroyed.

C. Both wanted to impose Shari’ah—the Islamic code of law—upon the region.

D. Both wanted to forge a single, large, secular, socialist Arab nation.

7. Who was the leader of the PLO after the Six Day War and what did he use against Israel?

A. Yasser Arafat; chemical weapons

B. Yasser Arafat; guerrilla warfare

C. Hafez al-Assad; guerrilla warfare

D. Anwar Sadat; terrorism

8. Which statement regarding outcomes of the Six Day War is true?

A. Jordan expanded into Israel by capturing the west bank of the Jordan River.

B. Israel more than tripled in size, winning territory from Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.

C. A Palestinian state was created between Israel and Syria.

D. Nasser’s secular government in Egypt gained more influence in the region.

9. Which statement regarding oil in the Middle East is false?

A. Oil-producing nations discovered they could use oil as an economic weapon against the West.

B. Islamist groups believed that oil revenue was helping to cause a shift to Western culture and values.

C. Revenue from oil was distributed fairly among an oil-producing nation’s entire population.

D. Oil-producing nations formed a cartel in order to fix oil prices and control competition.

10. Which leader from Israel, along with Egypt's Anwar Sadat, had peace negotiations hosted by U. S. President Jimmy Carter in 1978?

A. Menachem Begin

B. Gamal Abdul Nasser

C. Yasser Arafat

D. Hafez al-Assad