Question 1

The 1947 United Nations proposal recommended the partition of Palestine into two states, an Arab State and Jewish State, as well as ________________.

Accepted Answer

A)   a French stronghold in Jericho
B)   a British stronghold in Tel Aviv
C)   the designation of Jerusalem as an internationalized district
D)   All of these answers are correct

Question 2

Describe the organizational prowess (or lack thereof) of the Arab and Jewish communities in Palestine in the 1920s/1930s.

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Question 3

Which of the following most accurately describes the Histadrut?

Accepted Answer

A)   The Jewish defense force formed in 1920 to defend the Jewish community against Arab attacks
B)   The term used for the Jewish community residing in Israel
C)   The world Zionist organization led by Chaim Weizmann
D)   The federation founded in 1920 to promote Jewish trade unionism

Question 4

Which of the following most accurately describes aliyahs?

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A)   Jews who are born in Israel, rather than in the diaspora
B)   Waves of Jewish immigration to Palestine
C)   Jews who oppose the existence of a Jewish state in Palestine, as they believe it contradicts God's commandments in the Torah
D)   Communal farms first established by Jews in Palestine in the early 1900s

Question 5

Which of the following explains the significance of the Great Revolt of 1936-1939?

Accepted Answer

A)   In addition to its anti-British, anti-Zionist thrust, this locally-led Arab revolt contained elements of a peasant social revolution against the established Arab notability
B)   It resulted in the White Paper of 1939
C)   It led to Britain effectively dismantling the Palestinian Arab leadership
D)   All of these answers are correct

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT true of the first Arab-Israeli War in 1948?

Accepted Answer

A)   The war resulted in the defeat of the Arab forces
B)   The war resulted in the death of David Ben-Gurion
C)   The war resulted in the enlargement of Israeli territory
D)   The war resulted in the collapse of the UN proposal for a Palestinian Arab state

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT true of Jewish immigration in Palestine?

Accepted Answer

A)   Building up the Jewish population of the mandate would give credibility to the claim of a national home
B)   The waves of Jewish immigration into Palestine were called "aliyahs"
C)   With some 170,000 Jews immigrating to Palestine, the size of the Yishuv doubled from 1933 through 1936
D)   By 1936, the number of Jews in Palestine was greater than the number of Arabs

Question 8

Which of the following statements is NOT true of Theodore Herzl?

Accepted Answer

A)   He believed legal emancipation of Jews insufficient for eliminating anti-Semitism
B)   He originated the concept of Zionism in his book, The Jewish State
C)   He believed the only solution to anti-Semitism was for Jews to acquire political sovereignty in their own state
D)   He helped to convene the first Zionist council in Basel in 1897

Question 9

Describe the three phases in the postwar period that brought the state of Israel into being.

Accepted Answer

First, the Yishuv's campaign to sabotage the British administration in Palestine from 1945-47; second, the brief inter-communal war between Arab and Jewish communities in Palestine from 1947-48; and third, the 1948 war between Israel and the invading forces of the Arab states.

Question 10

By the late 1930s, representatives from the __________________ played an important role in the deliberations of the World Zionist Organization, and private contributions from this country made up a significant portion of the funds donated to the Zionist cause.

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Question 11

Identify and explain the significance of the Balfour Declaration.

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Question 12

The Black Letter of 1931 confirmed Arabs' belief in the ability of Zionist pressure groups to influence the decisions of the British government.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

After visiting Palestine in 1947, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) unanimously recommended that British control of the mandate should continue, as the territory was not yet prepared for independence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Which of the following accurately describes the activities of the Jewish National Fund?

Accepted Answer

A)   Zionist organization responsible for negotiating land purchases
B)   Along with British taxation policy, it forced the Arab peasantry to borrow funds at high interest rates from local moneylenders
C)   It led to eviction of tenant farmers, leading to greater unemployment rates
D)   All of these accurately describe the Jewish National Fund

Question 15

According to Herzl, if Jews acquired political sovereignty in a state of their own, which of the following problems would be solved?

Accepted Answer

A)   anti-Semitism
B)   the subordinate status of Jewish nationality
C)   Jewish oppression
D)   All of these answers are correct

Question 16

The Palestine mandate was different from other mandates in the region because

Accepted Answer

A)   it included people of different religions
B)   the native population believed that the mandatory power was unjust
C)   the native Arab population never assumed control when the European governors left
D)   there was an uprising against the imperial power governing it

Question 17

The increasing impoverishment and marginalization of the Palestinian Arab peasantry was the result of ____________________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the transfer of cultivated land from Arab to Jewish ownership
B)   British taxation policies that pushed small land and farm proprietors into debt
C)   the attitudes of Arab notables, who profited from the peasants' plight
D)   All of these answers are correct D

Question 18

The __________________ claims to the same territory inhabited by Palestinian Arabs lies at the root of the conflict over Palestine.

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Question 19

How well established were political institutions in Palestine at the time of Britain's withdrawal from the territory in 1948? How did they compare with the systems of governance that Britain had established in its other mandates?

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At the time of Britain's withdrawal from...

Question 20

Which of the following accurately describes the Revisionists?

Accepted Answer

A)   A group of Jewish intellectuals seeking to redefine historical claims to a Jewish homeland
B)   A group of Arabs seeking to revise the Balfour Declaration
C)   A group of Arabs and Jews seeking compromise with one another
D)   A splinter group of the Yishuv that called for massive Jewish immigration into Palestine and immediate proclamation of a Jewish homeland D

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Describe the organizational prowess (or lack thereof) of the Arab and Jewish communities in Palestine in the 1920s/1930s.

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Which of the following most accurately describes the Histadrut?

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Which of the following most accurately describes aliyahs?

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Which of the following explains the significance of the Great Revolt of 1936-1939?

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Which of the following is NOT true of the first Arab-Israeli War in 1948?

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Which of the following is NOT true of Jewish immigration in Palestine?

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Describe the three phases in the postwar period that brought the state of Israel into being.

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Identify and explain the significance of the Balfour Declaration.

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The Black Letter of 1931 confirmed Arabs' belief in the ability of Zionist pressure groups to influence the decisions of the British government.

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After visiting Palestine in 1947, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) unanimously recommended that British control of the mandate should continue, as the territory was not yet prepared for independence.

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Which of the following accurately describes the activities of the Jewish National Fund?

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According to Herzl, if Jews acquired political sovereignty in a state of their own, which of the following problems would be solved?

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The 1947 United Nations proposal recommended the partition of Palestine into two states, an Arab State and Jewish State, as well as ________________.

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Describe the organizational prowess (or lack thereof) of the Arab and Jewish communities in Palestine in the 1920s/1930s.

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Which of the following most accurately describes the Histadrut?

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Which of the following most accurately describes aliyahs?

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Which of the following explains the significance of the Great Revolt of 1936-1939?

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Describe the three phases in the postwar period that brought the state of Israel into being.

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After visiting Palestine in 1947, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) unanimously recommended that British control of the mandate should continue, as the territory was not yet prepared for independence.

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Which of the following accurately describes the activities of the Jewish National Fund?

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How well established were political institutions in Palestine at the time of Britain's withdrawal from the territory in 1948? How did they compare with the systems of governance that Britain had established in its other mandates?

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