Chapter Four Test History

Question 1

What do you call a one humped camel?

Answer 1

Dromedaries

Question 2

What’s the most important tree in the Middle East today?

Answer 2

Date palm

Question 3

What is a section of a city?

Answer 3

Quarter

Question 4

What do you call the head of a Bedouin tribe

Answer 4

Sheik

Question 5

What was the year that the modern state of Israel was formed?

Answer 5

1948

Question 6

Who is the god of Islam?

Answer 6

Allah

Question 7

What is the holy book of Islam?

Answer 7

Koran

Question 8

What are three peninsula’s of the Middle East?

Answer 8

Arabian Sinai, Asia, minor

Question 9

Name three important rivers of the Middle East

Answer 9

Tigris Euphrates and Jordan

Question 10

Name three religions that began in the Middle East

Answer 10

Islam, Judaism, and Christianity

Question 11

Who is the founder of Islam?

Answer 11

Muhammed

Question 12

Who is the missionary willing to “ burn out “ for God

Answer 12

Henry Martyn

Question 13

Who is the first Prime Minister of Israel?

Answer 13

David Ben Gurion

Question 14

Who is the leader that invaded Kuwait?

Answer 14

Saddam Hussein

Question 15

Who is the leader of Iran after it became an Islamic state

Answer 15

Ayatollah Khomeini

Question 16

What is the world’s largest peninsula?

Answer 16

Arabian

Question 17

What is the Middle East’s second highest mountain?

Answer 17

Mount Ararat

Question 18

What tropic line runs through the Middle East

Answer 18

Tropic of cancer

Question 19

What language is the most common in the Middle East?

Answer 19

Arabic

Question 20

What is the single largest religious group in the world?

Answer 20

Muslims

Question 21

What are the two holy cities from Muslims?

Answer 21

Mecca and Medina

Question 22

What is the largest city in Turkey?

Answer 22

Istanbul

Question 23

In what country is the national water carrier located?

Answer 23

Israel

Question 24

Which modern Israeli city is important center of business

Answer 24

Tel Aviv

Question 25

What island nation is located south of Turkey

Answer 25

Cyprus

Question 26

What is the Middle East most valuable natural resource

Answer 26

Oil

Question 27

What is the largest Middle Eastern nation?

Answer 27

Saudi Arabia

Question 28

Which country used to be called Persia

Answer 28

Iran

Question 29

Plateau -

Answer 29

An area of high level land

Question 30

Mediterranean climate-

Answer 30

Hot, dry, summers, and cool winters with some rain

Question 31

Wadi-

Answer 31

A temporary river

Question 32

Steppes

Answer 32

Dry grassy plain with little rainfall

Question 33

Fertile

Answer 33

Land that is able to grow crops

Question 34

Natural resources-

Answer 34

The riches of the Earth

Question 35

Zionism -

Answer 35

The returning of Jews to the holy land

Question 36

Mosque-

Answer 36

The Islamic building of worship

Question 37

What are the two largest oil producers of the Middle East?

Answer 37

Saudi Arabia and Iran