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The Middle East

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the best way to describe the location of the cultural and geopolitcal region known as the Middle East?

a)

Southeast Asia

b)

Southwest Asia

c)

Northern Africa

d)

Southwest Asia and Northern Africa

2.

What makes oil valuable?

a)

Scarcity

b)

low demand

c)

high supply

3.

Which of the following is a true statement?

a)

The United States consumes more oil than any other country

b)

The United States produces more oil than OPEC

c)

The Middle East never limits oil procuction

d)

All members of OPEC are in the Middle East

4.

Which leader is correctly matched with his/her country?

a)

Anwar Sadat--Syria

b)

Golda Meier--Israel

c)

Mustafa Kemal--Palestine

d)

Ayatollah Khomeini--Iraq

5.

Who is this?

a)

Osama bin Laden

b)

Saddam Hussein

c)

Ayatollah Khomeini

d)

Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

6.

The areas seen in green on this map are known as...

a)

Lebanon

b)

Zion

c)

Israel

d)

The Occupied Territories

7.

When did Israel acquire the areas seen in green on this map?

a)

After the Yom Kippur War

b)

After the first Arab-Israeli War

c)

After the Suez Canal Crisis

d)

After the 1967 Six Day War

8.

The conflict over the West Bank Territory is chiefly between

a)

Israeli settlers and Palestinian nationalists

b)

Palestinian settlers and Lebanese nationalists

c)

Lebanese settlers and the Syrian government

d)

ISIS and the Syrian government

9.

Who is often referred to as the creator the first secular nation-state in the modern Middle East?

a)

Osama bin Laden

b)

Mustafa Kemal

c)

Saddam Hussein

d)

The Ayatollah Khomeini

10.

Who is responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the United States?

a)

Iraq

b)

Iran

c)

Al-Qaeda

d)

ISIS

11.

Which Islamic Fundamentalist group was charged with human rights abuses against women and assistance in training for the 9/11 attacks?

a)

The Taliban

b)

ISIS

c)

Hamas

d)

Zionists

12.

What is the name of the movement to create and maintain a Jewish homeland in Israel/Palestine?

a)

Hamas

b)

Hezbollah

c)

Zionism

d)

Al-Qaeda

13.

Which group is predominantly Muslim, but not Arab?

a)

Palestinians

b)

Egyptians

c)

Turks

d)

Saudis

14.

Which organization is responsible for the oil embargo of the early 1970s?

a)

Taliban

b)

OPEC

c)

Hamas

d)

ISIS

15.

Which of these is most responsible for the expectation that there would be a Jewish homeland in the British mandate of Palestine?

a)

T.E. Lawrence

b)

The Balfour Declaration

c)

Hamas

d)

OPEC

16.

Which of these was a signer of the Camp David Accords?

a)

Gamel Nasser

b)

Ataturk

c)

Anwar Sadat

d)

Ayatollah Khomeini

17.

Which Arab state made peace with Israel through the Camp David Accords?

a)

Turkey

b)

Iran

c)

Syria

d)

Egypt

18.

Which of the following is the chief goal for Palestinians seeking a homeland?

a)

The Golan Heights

b)

The Sinai Peninsula

c)

The West Bank

d)

Tel Aviv

19.

Which of the following is the most populous Arab state?

a)

Egypt

b)

Iran

c)

Turkey

d)

Jordan

20.

Which of these could be described as a Muslim minority people of the Middle East who are continuing to seek a homeland--autonomous state?

a)

Turks

b)

Kurds

c)

Israelis

d)

Iranians

21.

Which of the following countries has a majority of Shi'ite Muslims?

a)

Turkey

b)

Egypt

c)

Saudi Arabia

d)

Iran

22.

In which country would one find the Muslim holy city of Mecca?

a)

Turkey

b)

Iraq

c)

Saudi Arabia

d)

Oman

23.

Which group controlled most of the Middle East before World War One?

a)

The Ottoman Empire

b)

The British Empire

c)

The French Empire

d)

Most of the current nations were independent states

24.

The group known as ISIS started as opponents to

a)

The government of Saddam Hussein

b)

The Syrian government

c)

Al Qaeda

25.

The first Gulf War in 1991, began when Iraq invaded

a)

Afghanistan

b)

Saudi Arabia

c)

Kuwait

d)

Oman

26.

Which of the following is a true statement?

a)

All Muslims are Arabs

b)

All Arabs are Muslims

c)

Most Muslims are Arabs

d)

Most Arabs are Muslims