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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who supported the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine?
(a) Germany.
(b) Canada.
(c) France
(d) England.

2. Who defended the right for Arabs to regain their land from Israel?
(a) Hussein of Jordan.
(b) Saad.
(c) Nasser.
(d) Golda Meir.

3. How many Jews were allowed to get into Palestine by the White Paper of 1939?
(a) 75000.
(b) 20000.
(c) 150000.
(d) 15000.

4. What did the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine feel the guerrilla movement lack?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Money.
(c) International recognition.
(d) Revolutionary ideology.

5. What does the Peel Commission recommend?
(a) Stop Jewish Immigration.
(b) Partition of Palestine.
(c) Keeping Palestine as one state.
(d) Lift Jewish immigration limits.

6. What was required for the liberation of Palestine?
(a) U.N. intervention.
(b) Soviet Intervention.
(c) Armed conflict.
(d) Negotiation.

7. What was Emir Feisal's title?
(a) King of Mecca.
(b) Sheriff of Mecca.
(c) Calif of Mecca.
(d) Nabab of Mecca.

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

9. When did the General Syrian Congress answer to the King-Crane Commission?
(a) 1918
(b) 1916
(c) 1920.
(d) 1919.

10. What did the Law of Return allow?
(a) Any jews to immigrate to Israel.
(b) For Jewish to return to their origine country for free.
(c) For Jewish to get a home vacationin Israel.
(d) For the Arab displaced by the war to return home.

11. When did the British ask the U.N. to consider the Palestine problem?
(a) Feb 14, 1948.
(b) Feb 14, 1949.
(c) Feb 14, 1947.
(d) Feb 14, 1946.

12. What did the Anglo-American Committee hope would curb hostility between Jews and Arabs in Palestine?
(a) Equalizing the disparity in standards of living.
(b) Equal access to American subsidies.
(c) Gated communities.
(d) Two countries.

13. Who wrote U.N. Resolution 242?
(a) Markus Estenberg.
(b) Ronald Stanbrik.
(c) David Ben Gurion.
(d) Gedeon Rafael.

14. Where were the British suppose to leave Palestine?
(a) August 1, 1951.
(b) August 1, 1948.
(c) August 1, 1950.
(d) August 1, 1949.

15. What would the cease fire line of 1967 be a source of according to Hassanain Haykal?
(a) Conflict.
(b) Peace.
(c) A new country.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Egyptian armies have Israel's army in retreat?

2. When did Ahmed Shukairy address the United Nations on the issue of refugees?

3. Who called for the total withdrawal of Israel from the territories occupied during the war in response of U.N. Resolution 242?

4. What did the Fatah distinguish between?

5. Who told the story of Dr. Arthur Ruppin?

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