Chapter 17

Instructions

Choose your answers from a-d by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

Who was the Lebanese President-elect killed in a bomb explosion on 14 September 1982?

a) Amin Gemayel

b) Rashid Karami

c) Bashir Gemayel

d) Rene Mouwad

Which of these countries did not participate in the Multinational Force deployed in Lebanon in 1982-4?

a) France

b) Italy

c) Turkey

d) Great Britain

Why was 9 December 1987 a key date for Anglo-Palestinian relations?

a) Beginning of the Intifada (uprising against Israeli rule)

b) Launch of the Reagan Plan

c) Speech by Yasser Arafat to the UN renouncing terrorism

d) Palestinian declaration of independence

Which of these cities was captured by Iraq in the early stages of the Iran-Iraq war?

a) Basra

b) Khorramshahr

c) Tehran

d) Abadan

What immediate event sparked off the US and British air raids on Libya of 14 April 1986?

a) A bomb attack in Berlin

b) Attack on the cruise ship 'Achille Lauro'

c) Shooting down of two US aircraft over the Gulf of Sirte

d) A bomb attack in Madrid