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Student News Quiz

Weekly Student News Quiz: Israel-Hamas War, Medical Breakthrough, Apple

Andrew Kelly/Reuters

The image above is related to one of the news stories we followed this past week. Do you know what it shows? You’ll find the answer at the bottom of this quiz.

Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can answer correctly.

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Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times

A terrorist attack on March 22 at a popular concert venue near a major European capital city killed at least 137 people. What capital was it?

2 of 10

Andrew Kelly/Reuters

On March 25, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for what in the Israel-Hamas war?

3 of 10

Ian C. Bates for The New York Times

This week, the Justice Department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia in filing a lawsuit against Apple. What did it accuse the company of?

4 of 10

Michelle Rose/Massachusetts General Hospital, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A breakthrough in medicine this week might offer hope to hundreds of thousands of Americans whose kidneys have failed.

What is the breakthrough?

Rebecca Noble for The New York Times

The World Happiness Report was released this week. What TWO statements are true about what the report showed about the United States?

6 of 10

Peter Parks/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

What Chinese territory passed sweeping national security legislation on March 19, giving officials more power to curb dissent?

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Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images

Why was there a face-off in the courts between Texas and the federal government this week?

8 of 10

The painting “Barbecue” by Archibald J. Motley.
Estate of Archibald John Motley Jr

A century ago, on March 21, 1924, a dinner party in New York with intellectual and artistic luminaries such as Alain Locke, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset and James Weldon Johnson set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century.

What was that movement?

9 of 10

Dimitar Dilkoff/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

On March 24, for the first time in over a decade, Paris revived a tradition: an annual race of cafe and restaurant waiters. Which of the following is NOT a rule for the race?

10 of 10

Jenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times

The Blockbuster chain operated thousands of video rental stores worldwide at its peak in the early 2000s. Today, in Bend, Ore., the last Blockbuster store continues to rent out films on DVD and Blu-ray.

What’s going on in this picture?