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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What cultural group eventually introduced the bubonic plague to Europe?
(a) Mongol caravans traveling west.
(b) African slaves being sold in European markets.
(c) European merchants traveling to China.
(d) Indonesians fleeing volcanic eruptions.

2. What phase of Earth's geologic history are we in today?
(a) The Hadean.
(b) The Pleistocene.
(c) The Archean.
(d) The Eocene.

3. What was the Cultural Revolution?
(a) A campaign to teach more cultural information in Chinese schools.
(b) A grassroots movement to make China more democratic.
(c) An attempt by the Chinese military to stage a coup.
(d) A purge of Chinese citizens who were viewed as bourgeois.

4. What did H.J. Mackinder argue in what de Blij calls the "most often cited article in geography"?
(a) That the next superpower would be from east Asia.
(b) That the next superpower would be the United States.
(c) That the next superpower would be a Eurasian land-based country.
(d) That the next superpower would have nuclear weapons.

5. What caused the Younger Dryas?
(a) Ice sheets sliding into the oceans.
(b) The Mongol invasions.
(c) The Little Ice Age.
(d) A volcanic eruption.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were many Americans shocked when Nixon went to China?

2. What did European countries fail to consider when they colonized Africa?

3. What historical event may have given rise to the stories in many cultures of a Great Flood?

4. What are China's current territorial claims based on?

5. What problem resulted from the drawing of political boundaries in Africa by European powers?

(see the answer key)

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