 - 1. In what decade did Aqil Agha begin assembling his militant group?
A) 1820s
B) 1850s
C) 1830s
D) 1840s
- 2. What was Aqil Agha's former military affiliation before he became an influential leader?
A) Ottoman army
B) Bani Sakher army
C) Ibrahim Pasha's army
D) British colonial force
- 3. Who was the Ottoman appointed kaimakam of Acre that Aqil Agha angered?
A) Emir Fendi Al-Fayez
B) Daher al-Umar
C) Ibrahim Pasha
D) Muhammad Kubrisi
- 4. Where did Aqil Agha go after being forced out of Northern Palestine?
A) Rafah
B) East of the Jordan River
C) Acre
D) The Galilee
- 5. Who was the leader of the Bani Sakher tribe?
A) Muhammad Kubrisi
B) Daher al-Umar
C) Emir Fendi Al-Fayez
D) Aqil Agha
- 6. How many men were in the army of Emir Fendi Al-Fayez?
A) 2000
B) 500
C) 4500
D) 10000
- 7. In what year did Aqil Agha return to the Galilee after being pardoned?
A) 1862
B) 1830
C) 1847
D) 1840
- 8. Whose rule was Aqil Agha's authority compared to?
A) Emir Fendi Al-Fayez
B) Muhammad Kubrisi
C) Ibrahim Pasha
D) Daher al-Umar
- 9. What event marked the end of Aqil Agha's autonomous rule?
A) Tanzimat of 1862
B) The alliance with Bani Sakher
C) The invasion of 1847
D) The death of Kubrisi
- 10. According to the text, what was the southern boundary of Palestine from 1840 onwards?
A) Gaza
B) The Negev Desert
C) The Jordan River
D) Rafah
- 11. According to the text, what was the northern boundary of Palestine from 1840 onwards?
A) Acre
B) Damascus
C) Litani River
D) The Galilee
- 12. Which desert was excluded from the geographic definition of Palestine in the text?
A) Arabian desert
B) Sinai desert
C) Negev Desert
D) Syrian desert
- 13. To which tribe was Al-Karak vassalized?
A) Bani Sakher
B) Bani Hamidah
C) Majali
D) Al-Huara
- 14. What was the eastern boundary of Palestine according to common usage from 1840?
A) Where the Syrian desert began
B) The Jordan River
C) Amman
D) The Mediterranean Sea
- 15. What was the western boundary of Palestine from 1840?
A) The Syrian desert
B) The sea
C) The Litani River
D) The Jordan River
- 16. Which family became a formidable force in northern Palestine in the mid-17th century?
A) Ma'ani
B) Tuqan
C) Zaydani
D) Shihabi
- 17. In what year was Daher al-Umar appointed as the multazem of Tiberias?
A) 1730
B) 1697
C) 1769
D) 1750
- 18. What commodity was the primary source of wealth for Daher al-Umar's autonomous sheikhdom?
A) Silk
B) Cotton
C) Tobacco
D) Wheat
- 19. Which city did Daher al-Umar found in 1769?
A) Tiberias
B) Acre
C) Nazareth
D) Haifa
- 20. Daher al-Umar formed an alliance in the 1770s with which external power?
A) British Empire
B) Russian Empire
C) French Empire
D) Austrian Empire
- 21. Which Ottoman official was responsible for ending Zaydani rule in the Galilee in 1776?
A) Uthman Pasha al-Kurji
B) Jazzar Pasha
C) Sulayman Pasha
D) Abdullah Pasha
- 22. What responsibility was assigned to the Wali of Damascus in 1708, often distracting them from local governance?
A) Taxation of Egypt
B) Diplomacy with France
C) Naval defense of Acre
D) Amir al-hajj
- 23. Which family did Daher al-Umar clash with over the Jezreel Valley and Nazareth?
A) Jarrar clan
B) Nimr family
C) Jayyusi family
D) Tuqan family
- 24. Jazzar Pasha rose to prominence as a product of which system?
A) European mercantilism
B) Safavid bureaucracy
C) Local tribal leadership
D) Ottoman state
- 25. Why did French cotton merchants leave Acre in the late 1780s?
A) Internal rebellion
B) Bankruptcies
C) Expulsion by Jazzar Pasha
D) Plague outbreak
- 26. What military force did Jazzar Pasha raise to protect his rule?
A) Local peasant militia
B) Janissary core
C) Druze cavalry
D) Mamluks and mercenaries
- 27. Which fortress successfully resisted Jazzar Pasha's siege attempts in 1790 and 1795?
A) Tiberias
B) Sanur
C) Deir Hanna
D) Arraba
- 28. Napoleon massacred thousands of troops after capturing which city in 1799?
A) Acre
B) Haifa
C) Gaza
D) Jaffa
- 29. Who was Jazzar Pasha's Jewish vizier?
A) Haim Farhi
B) Musa Bey
C) Ismail Bey
D) Abu al-Dhahab
- 30. Which group of sheikhs fought independently against the French, to the chagrin of the Sublime Porte?
A) Galilee
B) Jerusalem
C) Hebron Hills
D) Jabal Nablus
- 31. Who succeeded Jazzar Pasha as Wali of Sidon in 1804?
A) Muhammad Abu-Nabbut
B) Bashir Shihab II
C) Abdullah Pasha
D) Sulayman Pasha al-Adil
- 32. Which port city did Sulayman Pasha designate as the only one allowed to export cash crops?
A) Haifa
B) Jaffa
C) Gaza
D) Acre
- 33. What major conflict broke out in Jabal Nablus in 1817?
A) Civil war between families
B) Invasion by Egypt
C) Peasant uprising
D) Religious conflict
- 34. Who succeeded Sulayman Pasha as Wali of Sidon in 1820?
A) Haim Farhi
B) Abdullah Pasha
C) Musa Bey Tuqan
D) Muhammad Ali
- 35. What happened to Haim Farhi less than a year after Abdullah Pasha took power?
A) He retired to Damascus
B) He was exiled to Egypt
C) He was executed
D) He was promoted to Vizier
- 36. In what year did the Sidon Eyalet officially receive the sanjaks of Nablus, Jerusalem, and Hebron?
A) 1799
B) 1830
C) 1820
D) 1817
- 37. What factor contributed to the weakening of direct Ottoman rule over Damascus Eyalet by the late 16th century?
A) The collapse of the Silk Road
B) A massive earthquake
C) European colonization
D) Celali rebellions
- 38. Which sanjak was under the continuous control of the Turabay family?
A) Gaza
B) Jerusalem
C) Nablus
D) Lajjun
- 39. The Ridwan family maintained long-term control over which sanjak?
A) Safed
B) Lajjun
C) Nablus
D) Gaza
- 40. Which family traditionally held control of Nablus?
A) Ridwan
B) Fakhr al-Din
C) Turabay
D) Farrukh
- 41. Who was the Druze emir that threatened the Ridwan-Farrukh-Turabay alliance in 1622?
A) Fakhr al-Din II
B) Hasan Arab Ridwan
C) Ahmad Turabay
D) Muhammad ibn Farrukh
- 42. Which system became less relevant in the late 16th century, leading to a new governing elite?
A) Devshirme system
B) Millet system
C) Iltizam system
D) Timar system
- 43. Who supported the Ridwan-Farrukh-Turabay alliance against Fakhr al-Din?
A) The French navy
B) The Sublime Porte
C) The Wali of Cairo
D) The Bedouin tribes exclusively
- 44. Which sanjak saw its control frequently interrupted by governors appointed from Istanbul?
A) Nablus
B) Jerusalem
C) Lajjun
D) Gaza
- 45. Why did the amir al-hajj tradition help create a durable military alliance?
A) It meant they had to share the same treasury
B) It forced them to live in Istanbul
C) It required governors to protect each other's territories
D) It allowed them to tax the Hajj pilgrims
- 46. When did Ottoman rule over Palestine begin and end?
A) 1516–1917
B) 1500–1900
C) 1486–1850
D) 1517–1920
- 47. How many sanjaks was the Palestine region divided into during early Ottoman rule?
A) Three
B) Five
C) Seven
D) Ten
- 48. Which of the following was NOT one of the five sanjaks of Palestine?
A) Nablus
B) Safed
C) Lajjun
D) Damascus
- 49. What was the estimated population of Palestine in the early years of Ottoman rule?
A) 200,000
B) 500,000
C) 50,000
D) 1,000,000
- 50. What were the inalienable charitable financial endowments called?
A) Awqaf
B) Nawahi
C) Timars
D) Sipahi
- 51. Who were the primary holders of the timar land grants?
A) Qadis
B) Foreigners
C) Sultans
D) Timariots
- 52. What percentage of cultivated land in the Jerusalem Sanjak was waqf land?
A) Exactly 50%
B) Over 60%
C) Under 10%
D) Over 20%
- 53. What was the name of the administrative subdistricts?
A) Timars
B) Eyalets
C) Sanjaks
D) Nawahi
- 54. How did the Ottomans typically name their provinces?
A) After the dominant religious sect
B) After their capitals
C) After the ruling sultan
D) After historical names
- 55. Who defined 'Palestine' as an alternative name for 'Arazi-i Muqaddas'?
A) Khayr al-Din al-Ramli
B) The Sublime Porte
C) Ebussuud Efendi
D) Thomas Salmon
- 56. Who referred to Gaza as the "capital of Palestine" in the 17th century?
A) Dror Ze'evi
B) Muhammad ibn Mustafa al-Husayni
C) Köprülü Mehmed Pasha
D) Laurent d'Arvieux
- 57. In what year was the Sidon Eyalet established by the Ottomans?
A) 1657
B) 1640
C) 1660
D) 1690
- 58. Which Sanjak was separated from the rest of Palestine by the 1660 administrative reorganization?
A) Nablus
B) Gaza
C) Jerusalem
D) Safad
- 59. What was the main Ottoman concern regarding the Ridwan-Farrukh-Turabay dynasty's management of the Hajj caravan?
A) Religious differences
B) Substantially decreased revenues
C) Frequent border crossings into Egypt
D) The caravan was too small
- 60. When did Ridwan rule finally end in Gaza?
A) 1703
B) 1690
C) 1660
D) 1723
- 61. Who was the historian that claimed the elimination of the Ridwan-Farrukh-Turabay dynasty "radically changed the state of affairs" in Palestine?
A) Dror Ze'evi
B) Husayn Pasha
C) Laurent d'Arvieux
D) Muhammad ibn Mustafa al-Husayni
- 62. What was the name of the 1703 revolt in Jerusalem?
A) The Sidon Eyalet Conflict
B) The Gaza Rebellion
C) The Nablus Uprising
D) Naqib al-Ashraf Revolt
- 63. When did the rebels withdraw from Jerusalem after the 1703 uprising?
A) October 1705
B) 1703
C) 1723
D) 1690
- 64. Which family settled in Nablus after the 1657 expedition?
A) Ridwan
B) Turabay
C) Nimr
D) Farrukh
- 65. What industry did the new Nablus nobility invest in?
A) Silk production
B) Gold mining
C) Soap factors
D) Shipbuilding
- 66. Which group complained about the Janissaries' disregard for the sanctity of the Temple Mount?
A) The ulama
B) The sipahi officers
C) The Jarrar family
D) The French consul
- 67. In what year did Muhammad Ali of Egypt begin his campaign to annex Ottoman Syria and Palestine?
A) 1841
B) 1831
C) 1832
D) 1834
- 68. Who was the leader of the rebels based in Jabal Nablus?
A) Qasim al-Ahmad
B) Husayn Abd al-Hadi
C) Abdullah Pasha
D) Ibrahim Pasha
- 69. Who was promoted to the position of Wali of Sidon after supporting Ibrahim Pasha?
A) Qasim al-Ahmad
B) The head of the Abu Ghosh clan
C) Muhammad Ali
D) Husayn Abd al-Hadi
- 70. What concept describes the special legal status held by foreign nations in the Ottoman Empire?
A) Mandate rights
B) Extraterritorial monopoly
C) Capitulations
D) State within a state
- 71. Which individual claimed that Turkey had never been an independent sovereignty?
A) The Ottoman Sultan
B) American Ambassador Morgenthau
C) A Zionist leader
D) The British Consul
- 72. In what decade did the Ottoman military restore order east of the Jordan river?
A) 1840s
B) 1900s
C) 1880s
D) 1860s
- 73. Which group resettled the hamlet of Amman, attracting immigrants after 1921?
A) Armenians
B) Circassians
C) Palestinians
D) Bedouins
- 74. When was the administrative reorganisation that set boundaries until 1914?
A) 1873
B) 1895
C) 1860
D) 1903
- 75. The Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem was under the direct authority of which city?
A) Istanbul
B) Cairo
C) Damascus
D) Beirut
- 76. Which vilayet included the Sinai Peninsula and the western part of Arabia?
A) Hejaz
B) Beirut
C) Damascus
D) Aleppo
- 77. What were the sunken gardens used in the southern coastal plain called?
A) rimāl
B) mawāṣī
C) vilayets
D) sanjaks
- 78. Which daily paper, starting in 1911, helped increase the currency of the concept of 'Filastin'?
A) Falastin
B) Al-Quds
C) The Jerusalem Gazette
D) Ottoman Times
- 79. During which period did the 'Second Aliyah' take place?
A) 1904–1914
B) 1881–1903
C) 1914–1920
D) 1891–1900
- 80. How did the Ottomans generally regard the term 'Filistin'?
A) A strictly defined administrative province
B) A synonym for the vilayet of Beirut
C) A term for the desert regions only
D) An abstract term for the 'Holy Land'
- 81. Who issued the declaration promising to establish a 'Jewish national home' in Palestine?
A) Edmund Allenby
B) Arthur Balfour
C) McMahon
D) Sykes
- 82. Who commanded the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force that captured Jerusalem?
A) Arthur Balfour
B) Edmund Allenby
C) Picot
D) McMahon
- 83. What document was seen by Jewish nationalists as the cornerstone of a future Jewish homeland?
A) League of Nations Mandate
B) Hussein-McMahon Correspondence
C) Sykes–Picot Agreement
D) Balfour Declaration
- 84. The region was eventually partitioned into British and French mandates under which agreement?
A) Treaty of Megiddo
B) Hussein-McMahon Correspondence
C) Balfour Declaration
D) Sykes–Picot Agreement
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