Middle East

What is monotheism?

• Belief of many gods

• Belief of one god

• Belief of two gods

• Belief of no gods

What is the Holy Book of Islam?

• The Torah

• Holy Qur’an

• The Gita

• The Bible

Which religion is held in a synagogue and led by a rabbi?

• Buddhism

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Islam

Who settled in Palestine first?

• Palestinians

• Jews

• Both groups at the same time

Who gained control of Palestine after WWI?

• United States

• Britain

• France

• Jerusalem

Which event increased international sympathy for the Jews needing a homeland?

• The Cold War

• The Holocaust

• Arab Revolt

• Russian pogroms

In 1947, what did the United Nations decide to do with Palestine?

• Gave the land to Palestinians

• Made a Jewish state an international zone

• Made an Arab state an international zone

• Made Jerusalem an international zone

What was a cause of the 1967 war?

• Nasser closed the strategic straits of Tiran

• Nasser demanded that the United Nations forces leave Sharm al-Shaykh.

What started the Zionist movement?

• Violence against Jews in Europe and Russia

• World War I

• The discovery of the Western Wall

• The Holocaust

Jerusalem is holy because it has the church of the Holy Sepulchre were Jesus was crucified, buried, and resurrected

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Islam

• Jainism