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Middle East Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the largest country in the Middle East?

a)

Bahrain

b)

Qatar

c)

Saudi Arabia

d)

Yemen

2.

Which nation is represented by this flag:

a)

Turkiye (Turkey)

b)

Azerbaijan

c)

Saudi Arabia

d)

Turkmenistan

3.

What is the capital of Turkiye (Turkey)?

a)

Ankara

b)

Ulaanbaatar

c)

Podgorica

d)

Istanbul

4.

Who is larger: Iran or Kuwait?

a)

Iran

b)

Kuwait

5.

Turkiye (Turkey) was a part of what empire?

a)

Mongolian

b)

Ottoman

c)

Russian

d)

Islamic

6.

Why do Armenians and Turkish people hate each other?

a)

They don't hate each other!!!!!

b)

The mass genocide of Armenians by the Ottomans in 1915

c)

The mass genocide of Jews

d)

Because Volodymyr Zelenskyy said so

7.

Just out of curiosity, do you think that the USA should have invaded Iraq for the second time in 2003?

a)

YES! 'MURICA!!!!!

b)

Nah

c)

What are you talking about?

d)

Maybe, maybe not...

8.

After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the European powers (namely France and the UK) partitioned the Middle East into mandates. How could this have affected the Middle East today?

a)

It caused wide scale conflict for land and resources.

b)

Ethnic groups and religious groups were divided up and not given land (Kurdistan).

c)

New land borders and dam building causes lack of water to millions which could cause desperate people to go to war.

d)

All of the above.

9.

What is the capital of Afghanistan?

a)

Ashgabat

b)

Moscow

c)

Ankara

d)

Kabul

10.

Iran's government is...

a)

COMMUNISM!!!!!!!!!!!!

b)

Dictatorship

c)

Dictatorship that Identifies as a Parliamentary Democracy

d)

DeMoCrAcY wItH nUkEs

e)

Strictly Islam democracy

11.

Is Kazakhstan in the Middle East or Central Asia?

a)

Central Asia

b)

Europe

c)

Africa

d)

Middle East

12.

What is the capital of Syria?

a)

Nur Sultan

b)

Ashgabat

c)

Tehran

d)

Damascus

13.

How many square kilometres is Saudi Arabia?

a)

2.5 million square kilometres

b)

512,000 square kilometres

c)

17.098 million square kilometres

d)

1.5 million square Kilometres

14.

What is the name of the island that Yemen owns but Oman wants?

a)

Marria Isles

b)

Muriya Islands

c)

Bruh

d)

Moscow, Moscow

15.

Turkmenistan's size is comparable to what US state?

a)

Texas

b)

Alaska

c)

Iran

d)

California