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Ready to test your knowledge of the week’s events? Here is this week’s news quiz. Good luck!
1. Who is Golden Dawn?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]They are a extreme right-wing political party in Greece, with some arguing that they are neo-fascist. Greece is investigating claims that it has received training from the national military. The recent murder of Pavlos Fyssas, a left-wing hip-hop artist, has been blamed on the group.[/toggle]
2. This former Colombian president is returning to national politics because of his opposition to the current government’s plan to seek peace with the FARC.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Alvaro Uribe. Uribe cannot run for the Colombian presidency again, but is seeking a Senate seat this March.[/toggle]
3. Anti-Vladimir Putin advocates champion the rights of a performance group called Pussy Riot. Why?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]In February 2012, the group performed an anti-Putin song at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow and criticized the Russian Orthodox Church. For this, members of the group were sentenced to two years in labor colonies. Opponents of President Putin argue that the case shows the lack of freedom in modern Russia.[/toggle]
4. The recent UN report on Syria’s chemical weapons confirmed that this gas was used in the August 21st attack the prompted international outrage toward the Syrian government.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Sarin gas, which the UN report says came from an artillery rocket like the one used by the Syrian army.[/toggle]
5. A shopping mall was attacked over the weekend in Kenya. Which militant group was responsible for the attack?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]The terrorist group al Shabaab, which is based in Somalia. Al Shabaab was part of the Islamic Courts Union government in 2006, which was ouster by Somali and Ethiopian forces. Al-Qaeda announced that al Shabaab joined it in 2012 and al Shabaab seeks to go after targets in countries that are doing peacekeeping in Somalia, which include Kenya, Ethiopia, and other African nations.[/toggle]
6. On Thursday, Iran is meeting with which six nations to discuss its nuclear program?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]The United States, Russia, China, Great Britain, France, and Germany[/toggle]
7. Why are opposition lawmakers in Cambodia boycotting parliament?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Opposition legislators argue that Cambodia’s governing authorities are refusing to look into allegations of vote-rigging in the last election by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party.[/toggle]
8. Despite winning a convincing victory in the recent German national elections, why does Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Party have to form a new governing coalition?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]The Christian Democratic Party’s ally in government for the last four years, the Free Democratic Party, did not gather the required 5% of the vote to enter the Bundestag, the main German parliament.[/toggle]
9. On Monday an Egyptian court made what ruling on the Muslim Brotherhood?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]An Egyptian court banned the organization and ordered its funds seized. The Brotherhood vows to appeal.[/toggle]
10. What is the debt ceiling (debt limit)?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]The debt limit is the amount of national debt that the Treasury Department can issue. The United States has had some form of a debt ceiling since 1917. In fact, the only other democratic country in the world with a debt ceiling is Denmark.[/toggle]