Deck 52: The Reemergence of the Muslim World

Question 1

In Kemal Ataturk's Turkey,women could

A) wear veils or not, as they chose.
B) attend school if they chose to do so.
C) have more than one husband.
D) divorce their husbands.
E) hold high government offices.

Answer 1

divorce their husbands.

Question 2

The largest oil producing state in the Middle East is

A) Iraq.
B) Saudi Arabia.
C) Kuwait.
D) Iran.
E) Turkey.

Answer 2

Saudi Arabia.

Question 3

Explain the ways in which Muslims responded to key issues,for example,the formation of Israel and their actions of expansion.

Answer 3

Answers would include a discussion of organization such as PLO,oil embargos,acts of terrorism and finding unity to combat a common enemy in spite of serious differences among each group.

Question 4

After winning the 1948 war,the new Israeli government

A) expelled several hundred thousand Palestinian Arabs.
B) seized the city of Jerusalem.
C) returned some lands seized during the war.
D) refused the offer of the UN to mediate.
E) had to deal with a new force, the PLO.

Question 5

In geopolitical terms,"mandates" are somewhat similar to

A) city-states.
B) provinces.
C) colonies.
D) towns.
E) occupied territories

Question 6

Evaluate the role of the U.S.and Great Britain in Middle Eastern politics.

Question 7

The original goal of the PLO was

A) to return Palestine to their homeland.
B) to recover the holy city of Jerusalem.
C) to kill as many Jews as possible.
D) to regain lands lost to Israel in earlier wars.
E) to destroy the state of Israel.

Question 8

Elaborate on the state of Muslim nations today,both Arab and NonArab.

Question 9

The Shah of Iran upset many of his subjects because of

A) his unconcern for their welfare.
B) his corrupt government.
C) the deferential way he behaved toward the West.
D) his seeming concern for the true faith.
E) All of the options are correct.

Question 10

The phenomenon of stagflation was brought into Western economic life by the

A) Iran-Iraq War.
B) hostage crisis in Iran.
C) oil boycott of 1973-74.
D) Gulf War of 1991.
E) Yom Kippur War.

Question 11

Elaborate on key Muslim leaders and their actions in the 20?? century.

Question 12

The Oil Boycott of 1973-74 was brought on by

A) Western support of Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
B) U.S. support of Muslim liberals.
C) Western support of Israel in the Six-Day War.
D) British attempts to re-control the Suez Canal.
E) U.S. support of the Shah of Iran.

Question 13

Jewish immigration to Palestine began

A) after Theodore Herzl founded the Zionist movement.
B) just before World War I.
C) during the 1880s.
D) just after World War I.
E) after Palestine became a British mandate.

Question 14

Compare and contrast Turkey and Iran in their experience in the 20?? century.

Question 15

The "Great Idea" backed by Britain,with disastrous results,called for

A) turning Greece into a Turkish colony.
B) restoring the Byzantine Empire.
C) restoration of the Ottoman Sultan.
D) a modern crusade to Jerusalem.
E) capturing Iran's oil fields.

Question 16

Under the Pahlavis,Iran's government may best be classified as

A) fundamentalist.
B) secularist.
C) Pan-Arab leaning.
D) democratic.
E) radical.

Question 17

During the early 20?? century,Near Eastern Arab lands became mandates of

A) Britain and the United States.
B) France and Britain.
C) Egypt and Britain.
D) France and England.
E) the United States and France.

Question 18

Assess the significance of oil to global politics and the global economy.

Question 19

The number of Jews streaming into Palestine increased dramatically after

A) the establishment of the British mandate.
B) the Balfour Declaration.
C) World War II.
D) the publication of the McMahon letter.
E) the formal establishment of a Jewish national homeland.

Question 20

Which of the following most sets Iran apart from its Arab neighbors?

A) Muslims are a minority there.
B) Its history of warfare with the ancient Persians.
C) There have never been strong Islamic leaders come out of Iran.
D) The majority are Shi'ite Muslims.
E) Their support of Israel.

Question 21

Egypt's Islamic Brotherhood,formed in the 1920s,is noted for having

A) made a concerted effort to make peace with secular leaders.
B) adopted the precepts of Wahhabism.
C) publicly condemning all secular rulers of Muslim countries, stating their belief that rulers of Muslim countries, stating their belief that rulers of Muslims should always put God first.
D) been the first organization to use violence, including assassinations, to try to oust "infidel" occupying forces.
E) publicly renounced their Egyptian citizenship because of Egypt's secular stance.

Question 22

The state of Israel traces its creation to

A) an Arab-Jewish pact in World War II.
B) a United Nations decision to create two states from British-controlled Palestine in 1947.
C) U.S. military intervention after World War II.
D) a war against Egypt and Syria in 1963.
E) the success of the Jewish residents in the Yom Kippur War.

Question 23

The clash between secularists and nationalist in Arab nations will focus on which of the following?

A) The merchant class
B) Rural majority
C) Women
D) Shi'ite versus Sunni
E) Both A and C are correct.

Question 24

The Islamic country that appears to be least in tune with the rest of the Muslim nations is

A) Pakistan.
B) Bangladesh.
C) Lebanon.
D) Syria.
E) Egypt.

Question 25

Islam is a unique religion among the world's major religions,in that

A) fundamentalism has always been the choice of the majority of adherents to Islam.
B) Islamic law recognizes no separation between religious belief and civil laws.
C) until the 20th century, Muslims had never gone to war over their faith.
D) all people everywhere who adhere to Islam consider themselves to be Muslims first and a particular nationality second.
E) holy wars have always been aimed at non-Muslims, or infidels.

Question 26

In the 1917 Balfour Declaration,Britain

A) promised support for an Arab homeland between Iraq and Egypt, if the Arabs supported the British side in World War I.
B) tried to give up its mandate over Palestine, seeing that the region was about to become a major problem.
C) agreed to support a Jewish national homeland in an area populated by Arabs.
D) attempted, for the first time, to bring the Jews and the Arabs together to negotiate a truce.
E) put down riots involving Arabs and Jews fighting over Palestinian politics.

Question 27

The world's largest Muslim state is presently

A) Indonesia.
B) Pakistan.
C) Iran.
D) Saudi Arabia.
E) Egypt.

Question 28

Distrust of the United States grew among Iraq's Kurds and Shi'ites after

A) the American Air Force accidentally bombed Kurdish enclaves, killing hundreds of civilians, in a botched attempt to keep them safe.
B) the American military failed to monitor accurately Iraq's no-fly zones.
C) the United States withdrew from Lebanon after more than 200 Marines were killed in a bombing incident there.
D) President G.H.W. Bush promised to help them if they tried to overthrow Saddam, but did not send support when they, the Shi'ites and Kurds, did their part.
E) they saw how the United States treated the Iraqi army.

Question 29

Which of the following has hurt the United States' standing in the global community most?

A) The election of George H. W. Bush
B) Their support of Israel.
C) The hostage situation in 1979.
D) Their invasion and war in Iraq.
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 30

Kemal Ataturk believed that Turks

A) must remain Muslim to retain a national identity.
B) must expand beyond their old borders to solve their national woes.
C) had an obligation to liberate their Muslim comrades in Europe.
D) must adopt a Western lifestyle.
E) had a duty to convert all their surrounding neighbors to Islam.

Question 31

The British gave up their mandate over Palestine in May 1948,with the result that

A) the United Nations began to work on a partition plan for Palestine that would give some lands to the Jews for a new state.
B) Arab nations declared war on the Jews in Palestine, hoping to force them to leave before the U.N. established their statehood.
C) Zionists in Palestine immediately declared the creation of the nation of Israel.
D) the PLO was immediately established, to fight the Israelis and regain Palestine for its scattered peoples.
E) tens of thousands of Jews streamed into the new state of Israel to help fight for the survival of the new state.

Question 32

The largest Arab country,in terms of population,is

A) Saudi Arabia.
B) Egypt.
C) Iraq.
D) Syria.
E) Indonesia.

Question 33

All of the following are true of the British relationship regarding the territory of Israel EXCEPT

A) they openly declared to support Arab homeland in the region.
B) they openly declared to support a Jewish homeland in the region.
C) they tried to limit Jewish migration to the region.
D) they formed the Palestine Liberation Organization in an attempt to bring about peace in the region in 1964.
E) All of the options are correct.

Question 34

The Iranian Revolution of 1979 saw the overthrow by Islamic fundamentalists of the ____________________.

Question 35

One of Ataturk's modernizing reforms was to move the Turkish capital from ____________________ to ____________________.

Question 36

Since independence,Pakistan and India have been engaged in an ongoing struggle over

A) nuclear armaments.
B) Kashmir.
C) Bangladesh.
D) control of the Indus River.
E) relations with China.

Question 37

After the early successes of the Israeli state,the ____________________ formed for the purpose of destroying that state.

Question 38

After World War I,former Ottoman possessions in the Middle East were classified as ____________________.

Question 39

After the OPEC oil embargo of 1973,Western governments,and their people,realized that

A) they should actively seek out and research alternative sources of energy.
B) Arab nations should be considered in a more significant way as their role in global affairs could be major.
C) they did not need as much Middle Eastern oil as they thought.
D) Arab nations were becoming increasingly insignificant to global politics and economics.
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 40

One of the fundamental problems facing the Arab nations today is that

A) their oil supplies are limited.
B) they have little in common other than Islam.
C) they are plagued with bureaucratic corruption.
D) many of their politicians are less than capable.
E) politicians have made promises that they cannot fulfill.

Question 41

A momentous event occurred in May 1948,when the state of ____________________ was created out of land belonging to ____________________.

Question 42

During the period in which it had a mandate in the region,Britain promised help to the Arabs in the ____________________,and help to the Jews in the ____________________.

Question 43

The founder of the modern state of Turkey was ____________________.

Question 44

Iran's militant anti-Western policies/activities propelled the United States and other Western states toward military support of ____________________.

Question 45

The Arab world,and especially the OPEC countries,became especially upset with the United States after they gave even greater support to ____________________ in the ____________________ War; the result was a(n)____________________.

Question 46

In 1973,an oil boycott was instigated by Arab members of the oil cartel known as ____________________.