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By the start of World War I, as noted in "The Middle East: Theater of Conflict," one of the few sovereign countries in the Middle East was: |
| | A) | Egypt. |
| | B) | Morocco. |
| | C) | Tunisia. |
| | D) | Iran. |
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According to "The Middle East: Heartland of Islam," Muhammad, the first prophet of Islam, was originally a: |
| | A) | soldier. |
| | B) | merchant. |
| | C) | sailor. |
| | D) | farmer. |
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As pointed out in "Middle of Where?", the Middle East is not so much a geographical entity as a: |
| | A) | geopolitical concept. |
| | B) | emotional state of mind. |
| | C) | Saudi creation. |
| | D) | region of abundant resources. |
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An increased focus on Islam, as claimed in "Stifled, Egypt's Young Turn to Islamic Fervor," has the effect on young people in the Middle East of: |
| | A) | strengthening their support of secular governments. |
| | B) | promoting earlier marriages. |
| | C) | further alienating them from the West. |
| | D) | stimulating the study of Western religions, such as Christianity. |
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As described in "Fighting for the Soul of Turkey," Turkey was founded as: |
| | A) | an Islamic democracy. |
| | B) | a secular state. |
| | C) | a theocratic republic. |
| | D) | a constitutional monarchy. |
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As maintained in "In Algeria, a Tug of War for Young Minds," the government is urgently trying to re-engineer Algerian identity by: |
| | A) | changing the school curriculums to wrest momentum from the Islamists. |
| | B) | outlawing the use of French in any schools. |
| | C) | giving women full equal rights. |
| | D) | rewarding families with many children. |
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According to "The Future of Iraq," Iraqi politics tend to be all of the following except: |
| | A) | chaotic. |
| | B) | unpredictable. |
| | C) | noisy. |
| | D) | secular. |
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As brought out in "Saudi Arabia: Reality Check," reform in Saudi Arabia has been: |
| | A) | stifled by King Abdullah. |
| | B) | held back by the country's traditional conservatism. |
| | C) | accelerated because of protests by the country's poor. |
| | D) | slowed substantially by falling oil revenues. |
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As asserted in "Change They Can Believe In," the fiery crucible out of which modern Palestinian consciousness emerged was: |
| | A) | the exclusion of Palestinians from the benefits of the Balfour Declaration. |
| | B) | World War II. |
| | C) | the mass displacement of Palestinians after Israel's War of Independence. |
| | D) | the rejection of Palestinians by Arab states. |
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As given in "Responding to a Nuclear Iran," the United States has all of the following key strategic interests in the Persian Gulf except: |
| | A) | promoting democracy throughout the region. |
| | B) | maintaining the flow of oil onto world markets. |
| | C) | preventing any hostile state from dominating the region. |
| | D) | minimizing any terrorist threat from the region. |
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Until recently, as put forth in "The Middle East: Theater of Conflict," the peoples of the region had little awareness of one another or the outside world. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The United States, as explained in "The Middle East: Heartland of Islam," played a large role in the reconstruction of the Middle East after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following World War I. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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As stated in "Middle of Where?," the Middle East constantly shifts its boundaries according to the preoccupations and interests of foreigners, rather than those of its inhabitants. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Officially, as stated in "Fighting for the Soul of Turkey," Turkey is a secular state. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In the opinion of the author of "The Future of Iraq," expressed in 2008, the struggle for power in Iraq has shifted from political competition to military conflict. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In Dubai, as reported in "Fearful of Restive Foreign Labor, Dubai Eyes Reform," foreign workers outnumber citizens of the country. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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As stated in "Saudi Arabia: Reality Check," Islam is at the core of Saudi Arabia, influencing its way of life and its world outlook. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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As revealed in "Electoral Reform in Lebanon," the raison d'être of Lebanon's power-sharing system is to provide each group with a political safeguard against domination by the others. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The modernization of a state, as maintained in "The Human Rights of Women and Social Transformation in the Arab Middle East," rarely requires the disintegration of a traditional political system. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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As set out in "Change They Can Believe In," many people on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian issue feel profoundly that a compromise would be morally wrong. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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