Roots of Conflict Quiz

The goal of the U.N. partition plan

• split what was then known as Palestine was to​ ​

  into two separate nations

• segregate Arabs and Jews within one nation

• transform Palestine into Israel

• hand over Israel to the Palestinians

According to the timeline, which event marked

the first step toward Palestinian statehood?

• the Six-Day War

• the Intifada

• the Oslo Accords

• the Second Intifada

In the last section, Isabel Kershner says,

“Either [Israelis and Palestinians] will rise above

the fray and reach some kind of consensus about

how to live together . . . or it will eventually all fall

apart.” This statement supports the idea that

• peace could have been established many years ago

• the U.N. should step in again to broker peace

• Israelis and Palestinians should not try to make peace

• establishing peace is difficult because of the lack

  of consensus

What effect did Israel’s declaration of independence

have on the region?

• Israel became an independent nation

• Arab nations invaded Israel

• Israel ended up with more territory than

  originally proposed

• all of the above

The current state of peace negotiations between

Israelis and Palestinians can be best described as

• unimportant

• successful

• progressing

• stalled

The word provisional in the first section most nearly

means ___

• corrupt

• noisy

• temporary

• enormous

What is the significance of the West Bank and Gaza?

• They contain parts of Jerusalem.

• They are widely considered to be the heart

  of any future Palestinian state.

• They are the largest Israeli territories

• The U.N. failed to include them in its partition plan

The purpose of this article is to ___

• propose and describe a new plan for peace

• try to persuade the reader to take a side in the conflic

• provide background for understanding the conflict

  in the Middle East

• criticize the U.N. partition plan