Exam 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

The German Afrika Korps threatened to seize ____ and the Suez Canal, but British troops defeated the German forces at El Alamein in 1942.

In terms of the chronology of decolonization, it is accurate to say that

The events of September 11, 2001 can be interpreted as a dramatic and violent expression of pan-Islamic sentiment.

Which of these is NOT a proper match of colonial / post-colonial names of African countries?

Which group in Africa has been most strongly influenced by Western culture?

All Israeli governments have been composed of coalitions of several political parties because

The United Arab Republic was the result of the unification of Iraq and Iran.

In ____, even in recent years, women who did not adhere to the Islamic dress code have been fined or publicly beaten.

Sadeq Hedayat was obsessed with the frailty and absurdity of life and wrote with compassion about the problems of ordinary human beings.

All of these factors have contributed to turbulence and unrest in the Middle East EXCEPT

Among the selectively distributed benefits of Western colonial rule in Africa was/were

Which of the following about the role of women in post-colonial Africa is FALSE?

Which country launched "surprise" attacks on Israel in 1967 and 1973?

The majority of the terrorists who carried out the 11 September 2001 attack on the United States were from

Economic development in Africa has been difficult for all of the following reasons except

Oil resources are distributed relatively equally among the Arab states of the Middle East.

The formal establishment of the new state of Israel in May 1948,

The Egyptian novelist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988 was

When Ayatollah Khomeini became the ruler of Iran beginning in 1979, he

Why did the Middle Eastern region remain important to European states after the colonial era?