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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is OPEC's purpose?
Control the supply (flow) and price of oil worldwide.
Disrupt the global economy.
Monitor water desalination stations.
Fight the Taliban.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is Fundamentalism?
The wish to return to the basic teachings of a religion.
Government type where religious leader leads the country and religion governs the law.
The government of the Palestinian people.
Belief in one god.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What body of water is shrinking because people overused it for irrigation?
Aral Sea
Dead Sea
Indian Ocean
Straight of Hormuz
- 4. Multiple Choice
What very strategic waterway does all oil coming out of the Persian Gulf have to go through?
Strait of Hormuz
Suez Canal
Red Sea
Black Sea
- 5. Multiple Choice
What resource is scarce (not much of) in Southwest Asia?
Water
Oil
Salt
Sand
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is Monotheism?
The wish to return to the basic teachings of a religion.
Government type where religious leader leads the country and religion governs the law.
The government of the Palestinian people.
Belief in one god.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Why is Iraq's democracy still unstable?
Islamic fundamentalists trying to take over the government.
Conflict between the two main denominations of Islam (Sunni and Shia).
Fighting over land between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Continued presence of the USSR.
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is the oldest monotheistic religion?
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes the "Faith" Pillar?
There is only one God, and Muhammad is his prophet.
All wealth belongs to God.
All able bodied Muslims must make the trip to Mecca once in their lifetime.
All Muslims must pray 5 times per day facing Mecca.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes the "Prayer" Pillar?
There is only one God, and Muhammad is his prophet.
All Muslims fast from sunrise to sundown during the month of Ramadan.
All able bodied Muslims must make the trip to Mecca once in their lifetime.
All Muslims must pray 5 times per day facing Mecca.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes the "Charity" Pillar?
There is only one God, and Muhammad is his prophet.
All Muslims fast from sunrise to sundown during the month of Ramadan.
All wealth belongs to God.
All Muslims must pray 5 times per day facing Mecca.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes the "Fasting" Pillar?
All able bodied Muslims must make the trip to Mecca once in their lifetime.
All Muslims fast from sunrise to sundown during the month of Ramadan.
All wealth belongs to God.
All Muslims must pray 5 times per day facing Mecca.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes the "Pilgrimage" Pillar?
All able bodied Muslims must make the trip to Mecca once in their lifetime.
All Muslims fast from sunrise to sundown during the month of Ramadan.
There is only one God, and Muhammad is his prophet.
All Muslims must pray 5 times per day facing Mecca.
- 14. Multiple Choice
What type of government does Iran have?
Democracy
Republic
Theocracy
Dictatorship.
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which of the following groups of people are stateless nations?
Israelis
Palestinians
Turks
Kurds
- 16. Multiple Choice
Name that country!
Afghanistan
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Oman
- 17. Multiple Choice
Name that country!
Afghanistan
Syria
Oman
Iraq
- 18. Multiple Choice
Name that country!
Iran
Iraq
Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan
- 19. Multiple Choice
Name that country!
Tajikistan
United Arab Emirates
Lebanon
Syria
- 20. Multiple Choice
Name that country!
Palestine
Israel
Qatar
Georgia
- 21. Multiple Choice
Name that physical feature! (the body of water above Africa and below Europe)
Mediterranean Sea
Aral Sea
Strait of Hormuz
Indian Ocean
- 22. Multiple Choice
Name that physical feature!
Red Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
Persian Gulf
- 23. Multiple Choice
Name that physical feature!
Indian Ocean
Black Sea
Arabian Sea
Aral Sea
- 24. Multiple Choice
Name that physical feature!
Red Sea
Strait of Hormuz
Bosporus
Dardanelles
- 25. Multiple Choice
Name that physical feature!
Suez Canal
Dead Sea
Panama Canal
Black Sea
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