A. The flight from Paris crashed about 180 miles north of Alexandria shortly after it left Greek airspace. Alexandria was named after Alexander the Great and was the capital of Egypt under a dynasty founded by one of Alexander’s generals. It was the capital from 332 BC to 641.

Q: The flight was bound for Egypt’s present capital ...

A. Aden

B. Baghdad

C. Cairo

D. Damascus

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C. Cairo also is Egypt’s largest city with a population of 6.76 million people.

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Q: The submarine will search for the plane’s flight and cockpit voice recorders to find out why the plane crashed. Terrorism was blamed in a crash last fall in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. That plane carried 224 people – mostly tourists returning to the world’s largest nation ...

A. Australia

B. Canada

C. India

D. Russia

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D. Islamic State terrorists claimed responsibility in the Sinai crash, but so far no terror group has said it caused last week’s crash. Terrorists said they blew up the Russian plane because Russia was fighting Islamic State forces in Syria.

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Q: The Sinai crash and political upheaval have hurt Egypt’s important tourism industry which employs about 12 percent of the nation’s workers. Most of the nation’s 90 million people live near the ...

A. Mediterranean

B. Nile River

C. Red Sea

D. Suez Canal

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B. Egypt is the most populous nation in North Africa and the Arab world. The Nile River has been the center of Egyptian civilization that dates back to the 10th millennium BC.

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