Tunisian History and Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Tunisia with the correct year: Near the mountainous Algerian border rises Jebel ech Chambi, the highest point in the country at ______ meters.
  2. Complete the sentence about Zirid dynasty with the correct year: The Zirids of Granada surrendered to the Almoravids in ______, but the Badisides and the Hammadids remained independent during this tim…
  3. Complete the sentence about Hafsid dynasty with the correct year: When Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahid died in ______, the Almohad chiefs in Ifriqiya initially elected his son, Abu Zayd Abd al-Rahman, as th…
  4. Complete the sentence about Husainid dynasty with the correct year: The Husainids ruled Tunisia until ______ before the establishment of the Republic.
  5. Complete the sentence about Husainid dynasty with the correct year: In ______ Muhammad III as-Sadiq promulgated a new constitution which transformed Tunisia into a constitutional monarchy, with a legi…
  6. Complete the sentence about Husainid dynasty with the correct year: In ______, following a French invasion and occupation, the Treaty of Bardo was signed and Tunisia came under the control of France a…
  7. Complete the sentence about Beylik of Tunis with the correct year: Algerian attempts to overthrow the Beys did not end until ______, with a victory for the Tunisians led by Hammouda I.
  8. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Tunis with the correct year: In ______, the Ottoman Navy under the command of Kapudan Pasha Hayreddin Barbarossa, Aruj's younger brother, captured Tunis from the Ha…
  9. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Tunis with the correct year: Less than a year later, in ______, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V sent a multinational invasion force to wrest back control of Tunis…
  10. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Tunis with the correct year: Following the final Ottoman reconquest of Tunis from Spain in ______, the Ottomans maintained control of Tunis for over three centuries…
  11. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Tunis with the correct year: In ______, France used this as a pretext to establish a Protectorate, effectively taking control over the territory.
  12. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Tunis with the correct year: In ______, Spain completed its centuries-long Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula, followed by the establishment of the first Spanish…
  13. Complete the sentence about Ifriqiya with the correct year: The Hafsids in ______ declared their independence from the Almohads and organised themselves under Abu Zakariya, who built the Hafsid empire…
  14. Complete the sentence about French protectorate of Tunisia with the correct year: The protectorate was established by the Bardo Treaty of 12 May ______ after a military conquest, despite Italian disap…
  15. Complete the sentence about French protectorate of Tunisia with the correct year: Tunisian sovereignty was more reduced in ______, the Bey was only signing the decrees and laws prepared by the Residen…
  16. Complete the sentence about French protectorate of Tunisia with the correct year: A new party, the Neo Destour, was created in ______ whose methods quickly showed their effectiveness.
  17. Complete the sentence about French protectorate of Tunisia with the correct year: In ______, Tunisia was granted a constitution with a clear division of ministerial powers and responsibilities, but in…
  18. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Bardo with the correct year: A raid on Algeria by the Tunisian Khroumir tribe had served as a pretext for French armed forces to invade Tunisia in April ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Destour with the correct year: By the early 1930s, generational tensions within Destour led to the creation of the Neo Destour in ______, following the Ksar Hellal Congress…
  20. Complete the sentence about Neo Destour with the correct year: Led by Habib Bourguiba, Neo Destour became the ruling party upon Tunisian independence in ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about Neo Destour with the correct year: The party was formed as a result of a split from the pre-existing Destour party in ______, during the Ksar Hellal Congress of March 2.
  22. Complete the sentence about Neo Destour with the correct year: At the outbreak of war in ______, Neo-Destour leaders, though still untried, were deported to France.
  23. Complete the sentence about Neo Destour with the correct year: In April, ______, Salah ben Yusuf openly challenged Habib Bourguiba over his gradualist tactics during his autonomy negotiations with the…
  24. Complete the sentence about Neo Destour with the correct year: The Neo Destour party expelled Ben Yusuf that October; in November ______ he mounted a large street demonstration but to no avail.
  25. Complete the sentence about Habib Bourguiba with the correct year: Born in Monastir to a poor family, he attended Sadiki College and Lycée Carnot in Tunis before obtaining his baccalaureate in ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Habib Bourguiba with the correct year: In the early 1930s, he became involved in anti-colonial and Tunisian national politics, joining the Destour party and co-founding the…
  27. Complete the sentence about Habib Bourguiba with the correct year: In ______, following Bourguiba's release, he moved to Cairo, Egypt to seek the support of the Arab League.
  28. Complete the sentence about Habib Bourguiba with the correct year: Bourguiba returned victorious to Tunis on 1 June ______, but was challenged by Salah Ben Youssef for the party leader position.
  29. Complete the sentence about Habib Bourguiba with the correct year: The conflict ended in favor of Bourguiba with the Sfax Congress of ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Tunisian independence with the correct year: The first independence movement was formed by the Young Tunisian Party in ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Tunisian independence with the correct year: By ______, the Destour, a Tunisian political party, had formed a powerful base that was supported by the Bey.
  32. Complete the sentence about Zine El Abidine Ben Ali with the correct year: Ben Ali was born in ______ to moderate-income parents as the fourth of eleven children in the family.
  33. Complete the sentence about Beji Caid Essebsi with the correct year: Essebsi's first involvement in politics came in ______, when he joined the Neo Destour youth organization in Hammam-Lif.
  34. Complete the sentence about Beji Caid Essebsi with the correct year: In ______, he switched allegiance following Ben Ali's removal of Bourguiba from power.
  35. Complete the sentence about Kais Saied with the correct year: In January ______, protests began in response to alleged police brutality, economic hardship and the COVID-19 pandemic.
  36. Complete the sentence about Ennahda Movement with the correct year: After the Tunisian bread riots in January ______ the government suspected the MTI of involvement in the disturbances, and arrested m…
  37. Complete the sentence about Ennahda Movement with the correct year: The group supported the ______ takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, claiming that "It was not an embassy, but a spy centre".
  38. Complete the sentence about Ennahda Movement with the correct year: In the ______ elections, President Ben Ali banned the party from participating but allowed some members to run as independents.
  39. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Tunisia with the correct year: Tunisia's first modern constitution was the Fundamental Pact of ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about President of Tunisia with the correct year: Since the promulgation of a republican constitution in June ______, three years after gaining independence from France, Tunisia…
  41. Complete the sentence about President of Tunisia with the correct year: Because of this, presidential elections in Tunisia, such as that of ______, lacked international credibility.
  42. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Tunisia with the correct year: The office was established by Monarch Ali II with the appointment of Rejeb Khaznadar as the inaugural officeholder in _____…
  43. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Tunisia with the correct year: The office was revived again in the republican system by Habib Bourguiba with the appointment of Bahi Ladgham in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Tunisia with the correct year: Mohammed Aziz Bouattour is considered the first indigenous Tunisian to hold the office in ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election with the correct year: The result was announced after counting began on 25 October ______, and Ennahda won a plurality of votes.
  46. Complete the sentence about Monica of Hippo with the correct year: The actual stone on which it was written was rediscovered in the summer of ______ in the church of Santa Aurea.
  47. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, Pope Martin V ordered that the relics be brought to Rome.
  48. Complete the sentence about Perpetua and Felicity with the correct year: The Tridentine calendar, established by Pope Pius V, continued to commemorate the two until ______, when Pope Pius X brought th…
  49. Complete the sentence about Ahmad I ibn Mustafa with the correct year: Ahmad Bey was born in Tunis on 2 December ______ and spent his childhood in the royal residences of Bardo and La Marsa.
  50. Complete the sentence about Ahmad I ibn Mustafa with the correct year: Among Ahmad Bey's successes may be counted the abolition of slavery in January ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Ahmad I ibn Mustafa with the correct year: In ______ a textile works was established at Tebourba, powered first by water-wheel and later by steam engines imported from Grea…
  52. Complete the sentence about Muhammad III as-Sadiq with the correct year: A telegraph concession was established, with a French interest taking it up in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Muhammad III as-Sadiq with the correct year: The bronze cannon on the city walls and the fortifications of La Goulette were sold off in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Tahar Haddad with the correct year: The book was officially launched at a reception organized for him by his friends on October 17, ______, at the Belvedere Casino.
  55. Complete the sentence about Tahar Ben Ammar with the correct year: Ben Ammar co-founded with Abdelaziz Thâalbi the Destour in March ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Tahar Ben Ammar with the correct year: On 20 March ______ the Franco-Tunisian protocol was signed by the Grand Vizier Tahar Ben Ammar and the French Foreign Minister Christ…
  57. Complete the sentence about Tahar Ben Ammar with the correct year: Habib Bourguiba was his successor until July 25, ______; when he abolished the monarchy and proclaimed himself President of the first…
  58. Complete the sentence about Farhat Hached with the correct year: In ______ he took a job as a courier with "la Société du transport du Sahel", a transport company based at Sousse.
  59. Complete the sentence about Farhat Hached with the correct year: In ______ Hached was recruited for government service which meant relocation to Sfax where he was able to resume his trades union activ…
  60. Complete the sentence about Farhat Hached with the correct year: In ______, still aged only 32, Hached was unanimously elected as the first General Secretary of the UGTT.
  61. Complete the sentence about Farhat Hached with the correct year: At the fourth congress of the UGTT, in March ______, Hached provided an account of its achievements after five years under his leadersh…
  62. Complete the sentence about Salah Ben Youssef with the correct year: In August ______, he was appointed as the Tunisian Minister of Justice in the government of Mohamed Chenik.
  63. Complete the sentence about Salah Ben Youssef with the correct year: Charged with bringing the Tunisian request for statehood to the United Nations, which was gathered in Paris in March ______, he bar…
  64. Complete the sentence about Salah Ben Youssef with the correct year: Meanwhile, Bourguiba signed agreements with France on 3 June ______ establishing internal autonomy for Tunisia.
  65. Complete the sentence about Salah Ben Youssef with the correct year: Whereas Ben Youssef was previously a loyal friend of Bourguiba, when he returned to the country on June 1, ______, he became Bourgu…
  66. Complete the sentence about Code of Personal Status with the correct year: As early as ______, Hayreddin Pasha wrote "The Surest Way to an Understanding of the State of Nations" in Arabic.
  67. Complete the sentence about Code of Personal Status with the correct year: In ______ Shayk Muhammad Snoussi published "The Flower's Blooming or a Study of Woman in Islam" in which he advocated the edu…
  68. Complete the sentence about Free Destourian Party with the correct year: In ______, the PDL held its founding congress, where a new leadership emerged, with Abir Moussi as president and Hatem Laamari…
  69. Complete the sentence about Free Destourian Party with the correct year: In October ______, the party dismissed Laamari from his position just two months after his appointment.
  70. Complete the sentence about Free Destourian Party with the correct year: In ______, they attempted to regain their old positions in the party and accused Abir Moussi of authoritarianism, but failed to…
  71. Complete the sentence about Popular Front with the correct year: On 7 October ______, the coalition was formed and included 12 left-wing Tunisian parties.
  72. Complete the sentence about Congress for the Republic with the correct year: Accordingly, the Constituent Assembly elected CPR leader Moncef Marzouki interim President of Tunisia on 12 December ______…
  73. Complete the sentence about Congress for the Republic with the correct year: In May ______, disaffected members of the CPR left the party and formed the Independent Democratic Congress.
  74. Complete the sentence about Ettakatol with the correct year: In ______, Ettakatol ran for the first time in the parliamentary elections, winning only 0.12% of the vote and no seats in the Chamber of D…
  75. Complete the sentence about Al Jazeera Documentary Channel with the correct year: The Al Jazeera Satellite Channel was launched on 1 November ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Al Jazeera Documentary Channel with the correct year: On 1 January ______, Al Jazeera began broadcasting on a 24-hour schedule.
  77. Which place completes this sentence about Habib Bourguiba? The conflict ended in favor of Bourguiba with the ______ Congress of 1955.
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet? UGTT, responding to perceived failure to mobilize workers during the 2008 ______ Riots, was able to successfully navigate…
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Battle of the Mareth Line? On 13 January 1943, the infantry of the 21st Panzer Division were sent north to the 5th Panzer Army to protect ______.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Salah Ben Youssef? Born in Maghraoua, a small village near Midoun on ______, to a family of wealthy and influential merchants.
  81. Complete the sentence about Bourguiba with the correct year: Born in Monastir to a poor family, he attended Sadiki College and Lycée Carnot in Tunis before obtaining his baccalaureate in ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Bourguiba with the correct year: In the early 1930s, he became involved in anti-colonial and Tunisian national politics, joining the Destour party and co-founding the Neo D…
  83. Complete the sentence about Bourguiba with the correct year: In ______, following Bourguiba's release, he moved to Cairo, Egypt to seek the support of the Arab League.
  84. Complete the sentence about Bourguiba with the correct year: Bourguiba returned victorious to Tunis on 1 June ______, but was challenged by Salah Ben Youssef for the party leader position.
  85. Complete the sentence about Bourguiba with the correct year: The conflict ended in favor of Bourguiba with the Sfax Congress of ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Zine El Abidine Ben Ali with the correct year: On 14 January ______, following a month of protests against his rule, he fled to Saudi Arabia along with his wife Leïla Ben A…
  87. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Ghannouchi with the correct year: After a new wave of protests, Ghannouchi resigned as PM on 27 February ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Moncef Marzouki with the correct year: Marzouki finished his secondary education in Tangier, where he obtained the Baccalauréat in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Moncef Marzouki with the correct year: When the government cracked down violently on the Islamist Ennahda Movement in ______, Marzouki confronted Tunisian President Ben Ali…
  90. Complete the sentence about Beji Caid Essebsi with the correct year: In December ______, he won the first regular presidential election following the Tunisian Revolution, becoming Tunisia's first demo…
  91. Complete the sentence about Tunisian Revolution with the correct year: The protests were sparked by the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi on 17 December ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Bouazizi with the correct year: Mohamed Bouazizi, who was known locally as "Babousa", was born in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, on 29 March ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Arab Spring with the correct year: Political scientist Marc Lynch described Arab Spring as "a term I may have unintentionally coined in a 6 January ______ article" for Fore…
  94. Complete the sentence about Nidaa Tounes with the correct year: From its foundation until July ______, 11 members of the Constituent Assembly joined the party by defecting from various other parties.
  95. Complete the sentence about Nidaa Tounes with the correct year: Moreover, it participated in the formation of the broad oppositional National Salvation Front in July ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Assembly of the Representatives of the People with the correct year: Before the ______ revolution, Tunisia's parliament consisted of an upper chamber called the Chamber of…
  97. Complete the sentence about 2014 Tunisian parliamentary election with the correct year: Ennahda Movement came second with 69 seats losing 16 seats compared to ______ elections.
  98. Complete the sentence about 2021 Tunisian self-coup with the correct year: On 8 July ______, the Health Ministry said that the country's health system has "collapsed under the weight of the COVID-19 p…
  99. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Protest participation steadily increased leading up to December ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Tunisian dinar with the correct year: The dinar did not follow the devaluation of the French franc in ______, thus the exchange rate peg was abandoned.

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