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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who told the story of Dr. Arthur Ruppin?
(a) Moshe Dayan.
(b) David Raberg.
(c) Joseph Kramer.
(d) Robert Ingals.

2. What was the refugee problem created by according to Abba Eban?
(a) Floods.
(b) Building material shortages.
(c) Arab aggression of 1947 and 1948.
(d) Food shortage.

3. Who appointed the King-Crane Commission?
(a) The French government.
(b) President Wilson.
(c) The Jewish Council.
(d) The British Government.

4. Who dominated the Middle East, according to Hassanain Haykal?
(a) The U.S.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Britain.
(d) The USSR.

5. What policy did the Anglo-American Committee contain?
(a) Relocation.
(b) Contrition.
(c) Compensation.
(d) Restitution.

6. What did Arabs oppose?
(a) Jewish participating in the rulling body of an Arab state.
(b) A common Jewish-Arab country.
(c) Any kind of partition.
(d) Jewish makeing more that 5% of the population.

7. What did the Fatah distinguish between?
(a) The creation of a Palestianian state and democracy.
(b) The rights of Arabs and Jews.
(c) Pure and non-pure individuals.
(d) The destruction of the state of Israel and its people.

8. When did the Arabs begin discussion of secession from the Ottoman Empire?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1904.

9. When did the U.N. endorsed a partition plan for Palestine?
(a) November, 1946.
(b) November, 1947.
(c) November,1949.
(d) November, 1948.

10. What was the basis of the Fatah's creation?
(a) The defeat of Egypt in the Six Days War.
(b) Israel colonization and expansion.
(c) The destruction of Israel.
(d) The creation of Israel.

11. Why do the British want the Jewish immigration to be controlled?
(a) To allow for Arabs to acclimate to the changes.
(b) To please the Arabs.
(c) To not tax the limited food supply.
(d) To allow new comers to be absorbed by the local economy.

12. What did Hassanain Haykal reveal in the high level Arab leaders?
(a) Sense of history.
(b) Shortcoming.
(c) Strength.
(d) Hope.

13. What differentiated the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Fatah, the Arab National Movement, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. according to Part IV pp214-258?
(a) Their view of Israel.
(b) Their level of commitment.
(c) Their goal for the Palestinian state.
(d) Their degree of radicalism.

14. What did the Arabs want to halt the Jewish immigration and the transfer of land until?
(a) The departure of the British.
(b) The first U.N council.
(c) Institution of a self government in Palestine.
(d) Institution of a Palestinian and Jewish state.

15. Who wanted the Arab nation to be a land where everyone had equal rights and freedom of religion?
(a) Mohammed Akam.
(b) Hasan Makim.
(c) Negib Azouri.
(d) Agibd Mohatam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only course of action for the entire region?

2. For what reason did Abba Eban address the United Nations?

3. What was Ahmed Shukairy's profession?

4. When did the Knesset passe the Law of Return?

5. When was the Basle Declaration done?

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