Middle East Review Questions

1. What three religions come out of the middle east?

2. What is the main export of the middle east?
3. Which European country was in charge of a majority of the middle east for a long period of
time?
4. What is the Balfour Declaration?
5. Why is the area of Palestine an issue after World War I?
6. Why do the British leave Palestine during World War II?
7. Who steps in and creates the country of Israel?
8. Where do Palestinians flee to once the Jews start moving in?
9. What do the Jewish people do with the land once they move into Israel?
10.What types of technology come out of Israel?
11.What is the environment like on the Gaza strip and West Bank?
12.What does PLO stand for?
13.Who are the Mossad?
14.What type of government does Jordan have?
15.Where is the Paris of the Middle East?
16.How can you tell the difference between a Roman Catholic and a Greek Orthodox Catholic?
17.How can you tell the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite Muslim?
18.Why does Israel attack Lebanon during the 70s and 80s?

19.What happens in Lebanon when we try to send in Marines to help?

20.What are the Hezbollah?
21.What does ISIS or ISIL stand for?
22.What does a State of Emergency allow countries to do during bad situations?
23.Do you think that the United States should allow Syrian refugees into the country? Why or
why not?
24.What are three groups that are trying to gain power in Syria?
25.Who is the most notable leader of Iraq?
26.Why is nerve gas and poison gas banned in warfare?
27.Why did Saddam Hussein invade Iran and Kuwait?
28.What three countries are they talking about splitting Iraq into? Why these three (hint: the
names of each country)?
29.Where is the worlds largest sand desert?
30.What is a dhow?
31.What is an oasis?
32.What is a Bedouin?
33.How do people of the middle east get most of their fresh water?
34.What is an infrastructure?
35.What does OPEC stand for?
36.What does OPEC do?

37.What are some examples of Western items that are banned in the Middle East?
38.What is Mecca?
39.What is Medina?
40.What two countries are Muslim, but no Arab?
41.Who is the Father of the Turks?
42.What is a fez?
43.What is a Shah?
44.Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?
45.What body of water is Cyprus in?
46.What is special about the Kuwaiti Dinar?
47.What is the Arab Spring?
48.Which Middle Eastern country allows gay marriage?
49.Which country is the most conservative?
50.Which country has the highest per capita income in the world?
51.What does UAE stand for?
52.How many kingdoms make up the UAE?
53.About what percentage of the UAE population are expatriates?
54.What is Sharia law?
55.What is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
56.What is the Dome of the Rock?

57.What is another name for the Western Wall?

58.Explain the situation in Paris.
59.What are your thoughts on the Middle East and the Muslim world? Are they as evil as some
make them out to be or just misunderstood? Would you ever go there to visit? What do you
think about what you learned overall?

60.Identify the middle Eastern countries on the map below: