North Africa and Southwest Asia Sect. 3-5

The Suez Canal allowed ships to travel between what two bodies of water?

• Pacific and Indian ocean

• Atlantic and Artic Ocean

• Dead sea and Red sea

• Red sea and the Mediterranean Sea

What country did Egypt sell its shares of the Suez Canal, when it went bankrupt?

• U.S.A.

• France

• Great Britain

• Russia

What was not a good trade-off for the building of the Aswan High Dam?

• gave farmers a more reliable source of water

• Produced electricity

• Increased the fishing industry

• Made farmers use artificial fertilizer

Egypt was the first Arab state to sign a peace treaty with Israel.

• False

• True

The Muslim Brotherhood is a political party in Israel that is slowly taking back Palestinian Land in elections

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Muslim Brotherhood is an extremist Muslim group that believes in the principle of Islam and is critical of Egypt for working with the U.S. and Israel.

Over half of Egypt's population lives in ___.

• Condos

• Apartments

• the city

• villages

Capital of Egypt is what ?

• Mecca

• Cairo

• Alexandria

• Jaffa

A Jewish movement that encouraged Jews to return to their homeland was called what?

• Kibbutz

• Judaism

• Zionism

• Marko-Poloism

Because, more often than not, newly arriving Jews were not allowed to become landowners, this led many new immigrating Jews to form communities to live in together. What is the name of the community they created?

• Just communities with no actual names

• Kibbutz

• Rendezvous

• Orthodox

Isreal women must serve ___ years in the militatry, and men must serve ___ years

• 2 and 5

• 3 and 4

• 2 and 3

• 1 and 3