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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hassanain Haykal say makes the U.S. unlikely to try to find solution to the Palestinian problem?
(a) Israel lobbying money.
(b) Israel money.
(c) Israel superior military forces.
(d) Lack of Arabs in the high levels of the U.S. government.

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

3. When did Ahmed Shukairy address the United Nations on the issue of refugees?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1957.

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

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

6. When did the Knesset passe the Law of Return?
(a) July 5, 1950.
(b) July 5, 1952.
(c) July 5, 1953.
(d) July 5, 1951.

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

8. When was the Peel Commission created?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1936.

9. What was the goal of Arab militarism according to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine?
(a) Spread communism.
(b) Free the Arabs.
(c) Spread capitalist views.
(d) Oppress Arab social movement.

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

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

12. What was the only course of action for the entire region?
(a) Negotiation.
(b) United States intervention.
(c) Total war.
(d) United Nation intervention.

13. When did Israel declare independence according to Part III 107-158?
(a) May 14, 1948.
(b) May 14, 1950.
(c) May 14, 1947.
(d) May 14, 1949

14. 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) Agibd Mohatam.
(d) Negib Azouri.

15. When did the Syrian Ba'th Party stress the importance of a unified policy concerning the struggle for Palestine?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1969.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hassanain Haykal view the conflict for Palestine as a way to do according to Part IV pp. 258-303?

2. Who was the British Prime minister in 1931?

3. What was required for the liberation of Palestine?

4. What did the Law of Return allow?

5. What would the cease fire line of 1967 be a source of according to Hassanain Haykal?

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