A. Iran and Saudi Arabia have backed opposing sides in Yemen’s civil war as well as civil wars in Iraq and Syria. The rivalry extends to disputes in Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar, Afghanistan and Pakistan. After Shia Muslim clerics seized control of Iran in 1979, they called for more Islamic revolutions, worrying their neighbors with Sunni Muslim governments and sizable Shia populations.

Q: Shia Islam and Sunni Islam are the two major denominations of Islam and have been fighting each other since the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 632. Which has the most followers?

A. Shia

B. Sunni

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B. The great majority of the world's more than 1.5 billion Muslims are Sunnis – an estimated 85 percent. About 10 percent of Muslims are Shia.

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Q: The U.S. call for a cease-fire comes amid a growing crisis with 8 million of Yemen’s 27 million people facing starvation. The call for a truce was welcomed by Yemen’s eastern neighbor . . .

A. Bahrain

B. Djibouti

C. Oman

D. Qatar

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C. Oman is a Gulf ally of Saudi Arabia, but not a member of the Saudi-led military coalition trying to oust the Houthi militia that has seized the northern part of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa. It maintains good relations with the Houthis, who, like the Saudi-backed government, have expressed a readiness to return to the negotiating table.

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Q: Last week’s Saudi-led offensive targeted the Yemen’s capital and its key port city of Hodeida, which has been blockaded from receiving desperately needed food and medicine for the civilian population. Hodeida in on Yemen’s west coast on which body of water?

A. Arabian Sea

B. Mediterranean Sea

C. Persian Gulf

D. Red Sea

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D. Yemen is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, the Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel to the south, and the Arabian Sea and Oman to the east. The United Nations’ plea to allow it to run the port of Hodeida to allow emergency aid deliveries has been rejected.

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