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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was promoting a Jewish state and founded Zionism?
(a) Theodor Herzl.
(b) David Ben Gurion.
(c) Karl Rosenberg.
(d) Joseph Coen.

2. What did the Arabs feel a free Arab state would do?
(a) Free them from the Jewish influence.
(b) Satisfy the U.N.
(c) Guarantee the rights of the Jews.
(d) Make the Jewish leave.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only course of action for the entire region?

2. For what reason did Abba Eban address the United Nations?

3. What was the Peel Commission created to investigate?

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

5. When did Nasser move his troops in the Sinai to block Israel from using the waterway?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who rejected the White Paper?

2. What did Hassanain Haykal view the conflict as according to Part IV, pp. 258-303?

3. What did the report publish on May 1, 1945 according to Part II, pp. 72-103?

4. What did the Palestine National Charter express according to Part IV, pp. 214-258?

5. What happened on July 5, 1950, according to Part III, pp. 107-158?

6. What is decided on August 1, 1948?

7. What did the Fatah believe?

8. What did both Jews and Arabs have, according to Part I, pp. 2-36?

9. Who was Yizhak Rabin?

10. What did Abba Eban address in Part III, pp. 158-212?

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