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Who is the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization? |
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a) Crown Prince Abdullah
b) Yasir Arafat
c) Hosni Mubarak
d) Benjamin Netanyahu
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What sea lies past the northwestern border of Israel? |
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a) the Dead Sea
b) the Sea of Galilee
c) the Red Sea
d) the Mediterranean Sea
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Who lived in what is now Israel in the 12th century B.C.? |
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a) Hebrews and Philistines
b) Babylonians and Persians
c) Romans and Greeks
d) Seleucids
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Who is David Satterfield? |
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a) the U.S. Secretary of State
b) a former Israeli Prime Minister, now Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs
c) the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East
d) the President of Egypt
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Palestinian refugees fled their homes during wars in 1948 and 1967. Approximately how many refugees would like to be permitted to return to Israel? |
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a) 100,000
b) 500,000
c) 1 million
d) 4 million
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Who is the greatest prophet of Islam? |
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a) Mohammed
b) Moses
c) Abraham
d) Buddha
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When did Israel declare its independence? |
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a) May 14, 1936
b) May 14, 1948
c) May 14, 1967
d) May 14, 1999
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What is Zionism? |
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a) a political movement that began in the 1880s to create a state of Israel
b) a political movement that supports the creation of a Palestinian state
c) a philosophy of nonviolence between religions
d) a Palestinian protest movement that began in the 1980s
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What territory did Israel take from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War? |
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a) the Golan Heights
b) the West Bank
c) the Gaza Strip
d) Haifa
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What Palestinian movement, which began in the 1980s, protested against Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories? |
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a) Intifada
b) Fatah
c) Jihad
d) Hegira
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