Which group of theorists is most concerned about China's growing economic and military capabilities? a. Realists. b. Liberals. c. Constructivists. d.
... [Show More] Feminists. 1. Which group is most likely to focus on China's changing identity from Marxist purity to an increasingly globalized and capitalist society? a. Realists. b. Liberals. c. Constructivists. d. Marxists. 2. What event triggered the beginning of USChinese engagement? a. President Nixon's visit to China. b. Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms. c. China's acquisition of nuclear weapons. d. The SinoSoviet split. 3. To what does Beijing's "oneChina" policy refer? a. Taiwan is part of China. b. The return of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule. c. The Communist Chinese representative in the UN should be the sole representative of China in that organization. d. No division between rural and urban China will be permitted. 4. Which of the following is not a USChinese disagreement? a. China's military modernization. b. USChinese competition over scarce energy resources. c. China's territorial claims along its Amur River border. d. Human rights in China. 5. What policy toward China did President Clinton articulate in 1997? a. "Issue linkage." b. "Constructive engagement." c. "Prudential containment." d. "Peaceful coexistence." 6. Who is Lee Tenghui? a. China's foreign minister. b. President of Singapore. c. Commanderinchief of China's People's Liberation Army. d. First native Taiwanese to become president of his country. 7. What is meant by "a 100mile infantry swim"? a. China's claims to the Senkaku Islands will be defended by force. b. Taiwanese efforts to regain power in mainland China are likely to be unsuccessful. c. There is little chance that anticommunists in the cities of Hong Kong and Macao can escape mainland China's control. d. It is not likely that China can successfully conquer Taiwan by force. 8. What is America's policy of reinforcing its military strength in the Pacific and strengthening relations with Japan called? a. A hedging strategy. b. A strategy of divide and conquer. c. A balanceofpower strategy. d. A strategy based on positions of strength. 9. What is one of China's major concerns about North Korea? a. The overthrow of the North Korean government and the eruption of civil war in that country. b. The collapse of North Korea's regime and turmoil along China's border. c. North Korea's abandonment of its communist ideology. d. A South Korean invasion of North Korea. 10. What is Falun Gong? a. The name of China's current economic policy. b. A spiritual movement that China regards as a cult. c. A Chinese political prisoner whose case has been taken up by the US government. d. A group of Chinese prodemocracy advocates who have been jailed. 11. In what countries where US companies have not been allowed to invest have Chinese companies acquired drilling rights for oil? a. Brazil and Venezuela. b. Iran and Venezuela. c. Iran and Sudan. d. Sudan and Iraq. 13. What major US oil company did the China National Offshore Oil Corporation unsuccessfully try to buy? a. ExxonMobil. b. Chevron. c. Occidental. d. Unocal. 14. Who brought an end to the Jewish Biblical state? a. The Assyrians. b. The Romans. c. The Babylonians. d. The Sumerians. 15. What was the dispersion of the Jews out of Palestine after 70 AD called? The Jewish Diaspora 16. With what ideological movement was Theodore Herzl associated? a. Socialism. b. Zionism. c. Assimilation. d. Fundamentalism. 17. What was the Balfour Declaration? a. An expression of British support for an independent Jewish state. b. A guarantee of an independent Arab state under Emir Faisal. c. The surrender of the British mandate in Palestine. d. America's commitment to a twostate solution for Palestine. 18. What event created a dramatic increase in Jewish immigration into Palestine? a. The defeat of Germany in World War II. b. The Holocaust. c. The beginning of the Cold War in Europe. d. The Nuremberg trials. 19. Who was Israel's first prime minister? a. Menachem Begin. b. Ariel Sharon. c. Golda Meir. d. David BenGurion. 20. What happened following the United Nation's 1947 recommendation for partitioning Palestine between Jewish and Arab Palestinian residents of the area? a. The plan was accepted by both groups. b. The plan was rejected by both groups. c. The plan was rejected by the Jews. d. The plan was rejected by the Arab Palestinians. 21. What three countries invaded Egypt in 1956? a. Israel, Germany, the United States. b. Israel, France, and Great Britain. c. Israel, France, and the United States. d. Israel, Great Britain, and Germany. 22. Who was Egypt's leader during the 1956 Suez War? a. Hosni Mubarek. b. Gamel Abdel Nasser. c. Anwar Sadat. d. Nuri alMaliki. 23. In which war did Israel unify all of the city of Jerusalem? a. War of Independence. b. Suez War. c. Six Day War. d. Yom Kippur War. 24. What region of Syria does Israel still occupy? a. Golan Heights. b. Gaza Strip. c. West Bank. d. Sinai Desert. 25. What was the gist of UN Resolution 242? a. Israel should immediately withdraw from all territories seized in the Six Day War. b. Democracy should be established in Palestine.\ c. Israel should withdraw from territories seized in the Six Day War in return for peace. d. Israel and Palestine should accept the 1947 UN partition plan. 26. What organization did Yasser Arafat found? a. Hamas. b. The Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine. c. The Palestine Liberation Organization. d. Black September. 27. What is the rightwing Israeli political party that opposes returning any conquered lands to the Palestinians? a. Labor Party. b. Likud Party. c. Kadima Party. d. MeretzYachad Party. 28. What two areas are likely to constitute most of any Palestinian state? a. Gaza and the West Bank. b. Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. c. Sinai Peninsula and the West Bank. d. Jerusalem and Gaza. 29. Which of Israel's wars threatened a direct conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union? a. War of Independence. b. Suez War. c. Six Day War. d. Yom Kippur War. 30. What was a key consequence of the Yom Kippur War? a. Doubling of oil prices. b. Israel's surrender of the Golan Heights. c. Establishment of US bases in Israel. d. Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. 31. Who was the first Arab leader to make a public visit to Israel? a. King Hussein of Jordan. b. Anwar Sadat of Egypt. c. Hafez alAssad of Syria. d. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. 32. What was the tangible outcome of the 1978 David Accords? a. The division of Jerusalem with half returned to Jordan and half kept by Israel. b. A peace treaty between Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon. c. A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt and Israel return of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt. d. Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. 33. What was the target of Israel's "Operation Peace for Galilee"? a. Syria. b. Egypt. c. Jordan. d. Lebanon 34. What Shia terrorist group occupies southern Lebanon? a. Islamic Jihad. b. Hezbollah. c. Al Qaeda. d. Hamas. 35. What were the "intifadas"? a. Violent protests by Palestinians against Israeli occupation. b. Suicide bombers who penetrated Israel's security barrier. c. Teachers of Islam at madrasas (Islamic schools). d. The full body coverings worn by devoted Islamic women. 36. Which of the following was part of the Oslo Accords? a. Declaration of an independent Palestinian state. b. Palestinian selfrule in Gaza and much of the West Bank. c. The unification of Jerusalem under international control. d. Establishment of normal diplomatic relations between Egypt and Israel. 37. What Israeli prime minister was assassinated after concluding the Oslo Accords? a. Menachem Begin. b. Ehud Barak. c. Itzak Rabin. d. Binyamin Netanyahu. 38. What was the "road map" to peace proposed by President George W. Bush? a. A series of steps that Israel and the Palestinians would take to settle their differences. b. A final territorial demarcation of Israel and Palestine. c. A series of IsraeliPalestinian meetings to be chaired by the American president. d. Progressive stages of a PalestinianIsraeli disarmament agreement. 39. Who founded Israel's centrist Kadima Party? a. Ehud Olmert. b. Ehud Barak. c. Ariel Sharon. d. Shimon Peres. 40. When did the growth of militant Islam come to the attention of Americans? a. After the overthrow of Iran's shah. b. After the destruction of New York's World Trade Center. c. After the assassination of Egypt's Anwar Sadat d. After the US invasion of Iraq. 41. Who is the leader of Al Qaeda? Osama BinLaden [Show Less]
