The Middle East and North Africa Today

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Objective: Answer at least 14 questions correctly. Only answer each question once or it will be counted as a mistake. JavaScript required!

1. Turkish rulers of the Ottoman Empire were called ______.

sultans
caliphs
sheiks
shahs

2. A weak country that is looked after and controlled by a strong country is called a ______.

colony
city-state
protectorate
tyranny

3. The violent demonstrations that broke out in the occupied territories in 1987 were called ______.

OPEC
the Intifada
the protectorate
the caliph

4. Goods that are sold by one country to another country are called ______.

exports
commerce
imports
textiles

5. In 1990 the country of Iraq invaded the country of ______.

Syria
China
Greece
Kuwait

6. What was the religion of the Ottomans?

Hinduism
Judaism
Islam
Christianity

7. Who transformed Persia into a modern nation?

Charles Martel
Reza Shah
Avicenna
Gamal Nasser

8. Nationalism in North Africa developed shortly after ______.

World War I
the Industrial Revolution
the Russian Revolution
World War II

9. What was one of the chief accomplishments of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk?

He founded the state of Israel.
He gave Turkish women equal rights.
He overthrew the shah of Iran.
He helped the growth of communism.

10. After World War I, nationalism led the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa to ______.

fight for independence and establish separate countries
base their economies on farming
accept the protection of the nations of Europe
join together to from a single, strong Muslim nation.

11. The Zionist movement took its name from Zion, the biblical word for ______.

Hebrew
Jerusalem
God
Mecca

12. Which person helped create the Jewish nation called Israel?

Reza Shah
Mikhail Gorbachev
Golda Meir
Gamal Abdel Nasser

13. Which Middle Eastern and North Africa group controls world oil prices?

the PLO
NATO
the U.N.
OPEC

14. During World War I, the Ottoman Empire was allied with ______.

France
Germany
Russia
Italy

15. The rulers of the Ottoman Empire discouraged the adoption of ______.

modern technology
the philosophy of Plato
Muslim laws
Egyptian culture

16. In 1979, Muslim religious leaders, led by Ayatollah Khomeini, took control of ______.

Syria
Iraq
Iran
Italy

17. The purpose of the Zionist movement was to create ______.

an Arab peace settlement
agricultural communities
an army to fight the Nazis
a Jewish homeland in Palestine

18. Which event led to the development of many new Middle Eastern nations?

the end of the Ottoman Empire
the growth of more trade routes
the discovery of oil in Arabia
industrial development in Iran

19. A major source of unrest in the Middle East today is the ______.

decline in the growth of farming and agriculture
rapid development of large cities
disagreement in oil prices between Egypt and Lebanon
conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors

20. Oil is an important and expensive natural resource because it is ______.

easy to find and can be refined quickly and easily
a more efficient and sager energy source than water
useful in many ways and is a nonrenewable resource
very plentiful but controlled by only a few people

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