Middle East II

  1. Bernard Lewis, John Esposito and Karen Armstrong are

    Middle East scholars

    U.N. diplomats

    Leaders of nongovernmental aid organizations

    British ambassadors to Iraq

    Former hostages in Iran

  2. The site known to Jews as the Temple Mount is called _________by Muslims:

    Sharm-el-Sheikh

    Knesset

    The IDF

    Haram al-Sharif

    Ramallah

  3. In what year did the Iranian Islamic Revolution take place?

    1980

    1979

    1957

    1990

    1983

  4. The _______ are the descendants of the people who lived in North Africa before the Arab invasion.

    Samaritans

    Hebrews

    Berbers

    Palestinians

    Turks

  5. Who is Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al Qudwa al-Hussaeini?

    Saladin

    The former shah of Iran

    Ataturk

    Saddam Hussein

    Yasser Arafat

  6. The official language of Lebanon is

    French

    Arabic

    English

    Farsi

    Armenian

  7. Which of these is NOT an Islamic dynasty?

    Mohacs

    Fatimid

    Mamluk

    Ottoman

    Safavid

  8. Which country is part of the "Fertile Crescent"?

    Iran

    Saudi Arabia

    Turkey

    Libya

    Syria

  9. Which one of these is an Arab nation?

    Iran

    Turkey

    Afghanistan

    Syria

    Armenia

  10. The most populous Muslim country is:

    Saudi Arabia

    Egypt

    Indonesia

    Turkey

    Syria

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