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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. When was the Balfour declaration according to Part 1, pp. 2-36?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1916.

2. What does the Peel Commission recommend?
(a) Partition of Palestine.
(b) Lift Jewish immigration limits.
(c) Stop Jewish Immigration.
(d) Keeping Palestine as one state.

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

4. Why would Israel need to change its tactics, according to Hassanain Haykal?
(a) Palestinians would get better weapons.
(b) There was no longer any regular army to fight.
(c) Bad press due to civilian killings.
(d) Fights would move to densely populated areas.

5. When did the Arabs begin discussion of secession from the Ottoman Empire?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1904.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ruppin conclude?

2. When did the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry publish its report?

3. When did the Syrian Ba'th Party stress the importance of a unified policy concerning the struggle for Palestine?

4. What would be the best defense against Israel according to Ahmed Baha Ed-Dine?

5. What did the Anglo-American Committee hope would curb hostility between Jews and Arabs in Palestine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement?

2. What did the Fatah believe?

3. What did Jerusalem become?

4. What did Ahmed Baha Ed-Dine discuss?

5. What did Arabs publish in April 1963?

6. What is decided on August 1, 1948?

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

8. What is Fatah?

9. What did Hafiz al-Asad commend?

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

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