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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the leader of the Fatah?
(a) Yosni Mohamed.
(b) Yasir Aarafat.
(c) Yahish Mustaf.
(d) Akim Youssef.

2. What did U.N. Resolution 242 call for?
(a) Recogntion of a Palestianian state.
(b) Peace negotiations.
(c) The incorporation of Palestine into Israel.
(d) AU.N mandate in Israel.

3. What was the Peel Commission created to investigate?
(a) Arab terrorism.
(b) Jewish riots.
(c) Jewish terrorism.
(d) Arab riots.

4. Who was the British Prime minister in 1931?
(a) Montbaten.
(b) MacDonald.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Churchil.

5. How many agencies did the founder of Zionism want to create to help the Jews emigrate?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

6. What did the British pledge to support?
(a) Arab independence.
(b) Unlimited Jewish immigration.
(c) Full control of Palestine by the Jews.
(d) The Partition of Palestine.

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

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

9. When did Nasser move his troops in the Sinai to block Israel from using the waterway?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1968.

10. What was the basis of the Palestinian struggle, according to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine?
(a) Class struggle.
(b) Land war.
(c) Racial equality.
(d) Religion war.

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

12. Who was the Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency in 1939?
(a) David Hamberg.
(b) Joseph Kramer.
(c) Karl Staberg.
(d) David Ben Gurion.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was another name for the Fatah?

2. Who wrote U.N. Resolution 242?

3. What organization was charted in 1963?

4. Where were the British suppose to leave Palestine?

5. What did the Law of Return allow?

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