Unit 7 Assessment

Which individual is correctly paired with the historical event he helped influence?

• Anwar Sadat — establishment of a secular republic in Turkey

• Lech Walesa — creation of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

• Ho Chi Minh — destruction of Buddhist shrines in Afghanistan

• Kwame Nkrumah — independence of Ghana

Which factor was a major consideration at the time India was being partitioned?

• creation of uniform land areas

• equal distribution of natural resources

• tensions between Hindus and Muslims

• territorial disputes between Britain and France

Many conflicts in the Middle East during the post–World War II period have directly resulted from

• the dissolution of the Arab League

• border clashes between Iran and China

• disputes related to Palestine

• the partition of Egypt

The primary goal of both the Indian National Congress in India and the Mau Mau movement in Kenya was to

• establish military rule

• colonize lands overseas

• remove foreign control

• achieve social equality

Which document is most closely associated with the Arab-Israeli conflict?

• Balfour Declaration

• Kyoto Protocol

• Communist Manifesto

• Treaty of Nanjing

In the 20th and 21st centuries, Palestinians in Israel have protested and fought to achieve

• satellite status

• cultural assimilation

• economic interdependence

• independent statehood

The organization of campaigns in South Africa against the policy of racial separation and segregation are most closely associated with

• Jomo Kenyatta

• Cecil Rhodes

• Nelson Mandela

• None of the above

The purpose of Mohandas Gandhi’s actions such as the Salt March and the textile boycott was to

• begin a cycle of armed revolution

• draw attention to critical issues

• increase the strength of the military

• resist the power of religious leaders

Prior to 1947, the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League worked together seeking to end

• nonviolence

• religious diversity

• foreign rule

• nonalignment

… The grim statutes [laws] that I would spend the rest of my life fighting stared back at me from the page: the value of a woman’s life was half that of a man (for instance, if a car hit both on the street, the cash compensation due to the woman’s family was half that due the man’s); a woman’s testimony in court as a witness to a crime counted only half as much as a man’s; a woman had to ask her husband’s permission for divorce. The drafters of the penal code had apparently consulted the seventh century for legal advice. The laws, in short, turned the clock back fourteen hundred years, to the early days of Islam’s spread, the days when stoning women for adultery and chopping off the hands of thieves were considered appropriate sentences.… — Shirin Ebadi, Iran Awakening

Based on this passage, which statement is a valid conclusion about Iran following the revolution in 1979?

• Men were often penalized for their treatment of women

• Laws were changed to reflect Western legal principles

• The legal system discriminated against women

• Legal decisions were based on economic values.