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The one issue that has served as a unifying factor for all Middle Eastern Muslim states since the 1940s has been their


A) hostility toward Pakistan and India.
B) effort to defeat the Germans in World War II.
C) position on the Palestine question.
D) desire to increase oil production.
E) need to retain Western hegemony in the region.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and C)

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Identify the following terms. -Mau Mau

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Identify the following terms. -intifada

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Identify the following terms. -Operation Desert Storm

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Identify the following terms. -Kenya and capitalism

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During the first decades of the twentieth century,women in the Middle East


A) were aided by the "modernist" movement's efforts to change female statuses and roles by interpreting Islamic views in a manner closer to those prevailing in the West.
B) experienced great changes in their lives before 1970, in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Oman, which had regimes actively working to modernize their societies.
C) have made perhaps the greatest advances in Saudi Arabia, where women now have unlimited access to university education and may adopt Western dress.
D) have never had any political rights in Iran.
E) have had few if any political rights in Israel.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and C)

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In the Six Day War of June,1967,which of the following is not true?


A) Israeli forces seized control of the West Bank of the Jordan River.
B) The Golan Heights were taken from Syria.
C) An Arab blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba was broken.
D) All Palestinians were driven from Israeli-held territory.
E) The city of Jerusalem was occupied.

F) A) and C)
G) B) and C)

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This Nigerian author's novel The Interpreters lambasted the corruption and hypocrisy of his nation's government.


A) Wole Soyinka.
B) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
C) Sefi Atta.
D) Buchi Emecheta.
E) Ama Ata Aidoo.

F) C) and D)
G) All of the above

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All Israeli governments have been composed of coalitions of several political parties because


A) of the diverse population and large area of the country.
B) the Knesset used the American electoral system.
C) the nation was composed of two sharply divided political parties.
D) the nation was composed of many political parties having diverse interests.
E) a complete disinterest in politics by most Israelis.

F) C) and E)
G) A) and C)

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The two leaders who ended the apartheid regime without major bloodshed in South Africa were


A) Francis Malan and Jomo Kenyatta.
B) F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela.
C) P.J. Surhoff and Thabo Mbeki.
D) SΓ©kou TourΓ© and Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
E) Milton Obote and Menachim Begin.

F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

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Identify the following terms. -Iran-Iraq War

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Which of the following is not correct about the economies of the Middle East?


A) There is only a small amount of arable land.
B) Most of the most fertile agricultural land is owned by peasant farmers.
C) There is a lack of water in the region.
D) The Qur'an has little to say about economics.
E) Oil resources are not evenly distributed in the region.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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Identify the following terms. -"the great Satan"

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During the 1990s,


A) many African writers criticized the national governments and the local populace and not just their earlier colonial rulers.
B) African writers found that writing in local languages increased their incomes.
C) adult literacy, even in foreign, European languages, reached ninety percent in Africa.
D) many Africans longed for the return of Western imperialism.
E) the AIDS crisis diminished as the number of cases declined significantly.

F) C) and D)
G) C) and E)

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The majority of the terrorists who carried out the 11 September 2001 attack on the United States were from


A) Afghanistan.
B) Iran.
C) Iraq.
D) Saudi Arabia.
E) Jordan.

F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Identify the following terms. -Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini

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In the mid-1970s,these two African nations adopted a Soviet-style Marxist government:


A) Nigeria and Chad.
B) Gabon and Cameroon.
C) Angola and Ethiopia.
D) Mali and Eritrea.
E) Somalia and Tanzania.

F) B) and C)
G) B) and E)

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Identify the following terms. -Tanzania's Julius Nyerere's Arusha Declaration

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What role did nationalist movements play in the transition to independence in Africa,and how did such movements differ from their counterparts elsewhere? Would Africans have been better off if they had changed the existing colonial boundaries at the time they attained independence rather than keeping them? What advantages,and disadvantages,could different boundaries have brought to Africans in the 1950s and 1960s,and since?

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Identify the following terms. -Saddam Hussein and Kuwait

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