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Quiz: Iran History
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. Which of the following is true about the Iranian Revolution of 1979?
a. it was ended by a violent coup d’etat that removed and killed the shah
b. the uprising against the shah was supported by the United States
c. it was led primarily by peasants and rural guerillas
d. there was a broad revolutionary coalition of urban poor, middle class,
leftists, and clergy
e. it was motivated by a decrease in consumer prices and a rise in the
price of oil
____ 2. The United States was primarily motivated to co-sponsor the overthrow of Prime
Minister Mosaddeq in the 1950s by its desire to
a. keep a stable oil exporting
d. keep the Soviet Union from
regime in power
taking over
b. keep Iran from becoming a
e. keep Iran from becoming a
rentier state
dictatorship
c. keep Iraq from growing too
powerful
____ 3. An important cultural characteristic that separates Iran from most of its near neighbors
is its
a. identity as Arab rather than
d. weak sense of nationalism
Persian
b. identity as Shi’a rather than
e. history of authoritarian
Sunni
hereditary rule
c. reliance on sharia law
____ 4. The Revolution of 1979 was different from 20th Century revolutions in Russia and
China because it resulted in a(n)
a. failed state
d. one party state
b. ideological state
e. dictatorship
c. theocratic state
____ 5. All of the following were characteristics of the rule of the two Shahs of the Pahlavi
Dynasty EXCEPT:
a. modernization
d. secularism
b. rural economy
e. pro-Westernism
c. military repression
____ 6. The Qajar rule shaped the political culture of Iran by laying the foundations for
a. authoritarianism
d. the theocratic state
b. Sunni rule
e. secularism
c. communism
____ 7. Which of the following is an accurate comparison of the colonial experience of
Mexico and Iran?
a. Mexico was only indirectly colonized but Iran was not impacted very
much by western powers
b. Both countries were officially colonized by a western power
c. Neither country was ever officially colonized by a western power
d. Mexico was officially colonized and Iran was not but Iran was greatly
impacted by western powers
e. Iran was officially colonized but Mexico was not since it was far away
from Europe
____ 8. The demonstrations and protests during the early summer of 2009 were sparked by
a. accusations that presidential election was fraudulent
b. striking bus drivers
c. the privatization of the university system
d. high unemployment rates and unsatisfactory labor laws
e. a government crackdown against western dress
____ 9. In recent years a crisis in political legitimacy in Iran has occurred between two
conflicting ideas—sovereignty of the people and
a. the power of judicial review
d. divinely inspired clerical rule
b. sovereignty of the monarch
e. outside interference by other countries
c. charismatic authority of the
president
____10. Which of the following has the right to dismiss Iran’s Supreme Leader?
a. Majles
d. Revolutionary Guards
b. Expediency Council
e. Guardian Council
c. Assembly of Religious Experts