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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following maps can you derive the most accurate estimates of distances from?
(a) A map of a city.
(b) A map of the United States.
(c) A map of the world.
(d) A map of a city block.

2. What problem resulted from the drawing of political boundaries in Africa by European powers?
(a) Food distribution problems.
(b) The rise of dictatorships.
(c) Cultural and ethnic clashes.
(d) Droughts and epidemics.

3. What kind of map does not distort reality?
(a) A globe.
(b) An equal area projection.
(c) A cynlindrical projection.
(d) A conical projection.

4. What caused the second Agricultural Revolution?
(a) The warm weather that was perfect for farming.
(b) The cultural exchange brought about by colonialism.
(c) The influx of technology brought back by merchants from China.
(d) The need to find ways to produce more crops to feed starving people.

5. What did scientists think was happening to the climate in the 1950s, when de Blij was in graduate school?
(a) Global upheaval.
(b) No change in climate.
(c) Global warming.
(d) Global cooling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one of the characteristics of a nation-state?

2. When did the nation-state emerge in Europe?

3. What cultural group eventually introduced the bubonic plague to Europe?

4. What reason did Iraq give for invading Kuwait just before the first Gulf War?

5. What did H.J. Mackinder argue in what de Blij calls the "most often cited article in geography"?

(see the answer key)

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