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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry formed according o Part II pp. 72-103?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1948.

3. When did the U.N. call for Egypt not to interfere with commerce through the Suez Canal?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1957.

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

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

6. How long of a transitional period did the U.N. set to create provisional governments?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 4 years.

7. What organization was charted in 1963?
(a) Palestine Liberation Organization.
(b) Palestinian Freedom Organization.
(c) Palestinian Front.
(d) Popular front of Palestine.

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

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

10. Beside Palestine, what other location does the founder of Zionism think would be suitable for a Jewish state?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Canada.
(c) Australia.
(d) China.

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

12. What did Ruppin conclude?
(a) Israel is as much to blame as Arabs.
(b) Arab and Jew elites are the one perpetuating the war.
(c) Arabs and Jews would reconcile.
(d) Jews will always be at war with the Arabs.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote U.N. Resolution 242?

2. Who was Egypt president in 1973?

3. What did the Law of Return allow?

4. What did the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine feel the guerrilla movement lack?

5. What territories did Israel agree to withdrawn from in U.N. Resolution 242?

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