Exam 6: North Africa and Southwest Asia

How does the region's population growth rate compare to the rest of the world?

Name one thing that influences children and introduces them to the larger world.

Southwest Asia and North Africa are the only regions in the world that specify spaces for each gender.

Attitudes toward and the practice of female seclusion are very similar in most Muslim countries and cities.

In what decade of the twentieth century, with the formation of OPEC, did the oil-producing countries of North Africa/Southwest Asia gain control of their own oil reserves from foreign companies?

Which of the following was NOT a goal of the second U.S.-Iraq War?

Following World War I, which nation was charged with administering the territory of Palestine?

Which of the following is NOT one of the boundaries of the Fertile Crescent?

Following the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, which modern-day country was the only one to be recognized as independent?

In general, the countries of North Africa/Southwest Asia that have made the largest capital improvements in recent years have been the Gulf States with the highest petroleum-based incomes.

What body of water in Southwest Asia sits atop the world's largest known petroleum (oil and gas) reserves?

What is responsible for the belt of desert that covers North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and Iran?

Which of the following has NOT played a role in North Africa/Southwest Asia's failed attempts to diversify their economies?

The Byzantine capital was:

Which of the following is NOT true of domestic spaces in today's Muslim world?

The Arab Spring protests were brought on by all of the following EXCEPT:

What do Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all have in common?

Repression of Islamist movements by secular states within North Africa/Southwest Asia has succeeded in removing the Islamist influence in those states.

Followers of Islam are divided into what two groups having different interpretations of the Qur'an as well as other traditions?

One of the points Arab Spring protestors agree on is the role Islam should play in society.