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Middle East History Review
Test Description: SS7H2 The student will analyze continuity and change in Southwest Asia (Middle East) leading to the 21st century.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) The Ottoman Empire once controlled land on which set of continents?
A
North America, Asia, Europe
B
Europe, Asia, Africa
C
Africa, Australia, Asia
D
South America, Africa, Europe
2) 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq after claiming the Iraqi government, led by Saddam Hussein, was developing nuclear weapons and offering aid to groups like al-Qaeda.
A
Persian Gulf War
B
Operation Desert Storm
C
Operation Iraqi Freedom
D
Operation Enduring Freedom
3) Which Middle Eastern conflict is best described as a U.S. led military operation in Afghanistan aimed at capturing the people responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
A
Operation Iraqi Freedom
B
Operation Enduring Freedom
C
Persian Gulf Conflict
D
Operation Desert Storm
4) What is the United States' main economic interest in Southwest Asia (the Middle East)?
A
ending poverty
B
water supply
C
oil
D
tourism
5) Why do followers of the Jewish faith claim the land of Israel as promised land?
A
All national groups in the former Ottoman Empire were being given homelands at the same time including the Kurds.
B
They purchased the land from the Ottoman Empire.
C
God promised the land to the patriarch (leader of the family) Abraham.
D
There was no one else living on the land at that time.
6) Following World War I, the Kurds found their land divided among which four Middle Eastern countries?
A
Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran
B
Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey
C
Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Turkey
D
Syria, Turkey, Iran, Iraq
7) What was the outcome of the 1948 War between the State of Israel and the Arabs living in and around Palestine?
A
The conflict ended and all Palestinian Arabs became citizens in the new State of Israel
B
Israel won the war and the new State of Israel was even larger than originally planned.
C
Battles ended in a stalemate; no one won
D
Almost no Jewish people were willing to go to Israel because of the country's angry Arab neighbors
8) What is one reason why Saddam Hussein's government quickly collapsed after U.S. invasion in 2003?
A
Saddam Hussein was executed immediately by U.S. soldiers in 2003.
B
Lots of WMD’s were discovered within Iraq.
C
His own people, the Iraqis, felt Saddam Hussein was a cruel leader.
D
Saddam Hussein was impeached in 2003.
9) The United States has had a presence in Southwest Asia since the late 20th century. Which of the following DID NOT contribute to Western influence in the Middle East?
A
Ending Terrorism
B
Promoting Democracy
C
U.S. Colonization of Palestine as a Mandate
D
Economic / Political Interests
10) Why was the U.S. present in Kuwait and interested in Middle Eastern affairs, specifically when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990?
A
The only job of the United States is military action around the world.
B
Kuwait was a member of the United Nations and members of the UN will come to the aid of another member nation that is attacke
C
The United States wanted to destroy the country of Iraq.
D
The United States has a high GDP and therefore is ethically obligated to help countries when under attack.
11) Which of the following, crafted nearly 100 years ago, can be directly blamed for all violence, ethnic and religious clashes, and political instability in the Middle East?
A
Sykes-Picot Agreement
B
Balfour Declaration
C
Mandate for Palestine
D
United Nations
12) All of the following led to the State of Israel being established in 1948, EXCEPT:
A
Arabs asking that some of their land be given to the Jews
B
Anti-semitism
C
Zionism
D
Jewish religious connection to the land
13) What is Zionism?
A
The movement to bring Jews to Palestine by establishing the Jews a homeland.
B
The hope that all governments will be based on religious principles.
C
The plan to let Arabs and Jews share the land in Palestine equally.
D
The idea that all religious groups should have their own countries.
14) What best describes the division between Sunni Shia Muslims?
A
The two main subsets of Islam have been fighting for valuable land over the millennia.
B
The two sides have been at conflict since the Shia Muslims killed the Sunni King.
C
The two main sub-groups within Islam initially stemmed not from spiritual differences, but from political differences.
D
They cannot agree on the most fundamental aspects of the Islam religion
15) Who are the “Taliban”?
A
Members of the United Nations
B
The government of Kuwait
C
The government of Iraq
D
A group of radical Muslims in Afghanistan
16) In August of 1990 the country of Iraq invaded Kuwait in an effort to control Kuwait’s large supplies of oil. What factor DID NOT influence the Iraqi dictator to order his troops to occupy Kuwait?
A
The creation of Kuwait meant that Iraq lost most of its access to the Persian Gulf.
B
The creation of Kuwait meant that Iraq would have a close neighboring ally.
C
Saddam Hussein claimed Kuwait was taking more oil than they were allowed to from shared oil fields.
D
Saddam Hussein claimed that after the fall of the Ottoman Empire the area that became the country of Kuwait should have been
17) Who was the dictator of Iraq from 1979-2003?
A
Saddam Hussein
B
Al-Qaeda
C
Taliban
D
Osama Bin Laden
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