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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who called for the total withdrawal of Israel from the territories occupied during the war in response of U.N. Resolution 242?
(a) Jordan.
(b) The U.K.
(c) The U.S.
(d) The Soviet Union.

2. Who adopted the Basle Declaration?
(a) THe Jewish Concil.
(b) The Zionist Concil.
(c) The Jewish protectorate.
(d) The Zionist Congress.

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

4. What did the most of the educated and most competent Palestinians do, according to Ahmed Baha Ed-Dine?
(a) Immigrated to different countries.
(b) Became Fatah executives.
(c) Died.
(d) Lost hope.

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

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

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

8. Who wrote the "White Paper"?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Churchill.
(c) Montbaten.
(d) Rosen.

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

10. Who was Egypt president in 1973?
(a) El-Sada
(b) Nasser.
(c) Anwar Sadat.
(d) Moubarak.

11. 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 degree of radicalism.
(d) Their goal for the Palestinian state.

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

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

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

15. What did Hassanain Haykal view the conflict for Palestine as a way to do according to Part IV pp. 258-303?
(a) A way to keep Arabs absent from the international scene.
(b) A way to give the Jews compensation for the Holocaust.
(c) A way of forcing the Arabs to submit to the West.
(d) A way to punish the Arabs for the religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Basle Declaration done?

2. Who supported the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine?

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

4. What did U.N. Resolution 242 call for?

5. Who promoted terrorism against Israel?

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