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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Georgetown University decide to do in response to the geographic illiteracy of incoming students?
(a) It required all students to take a class called Map of the Modern World.
(b) It required all students to take four years of geography.
(c) It required all students to pass a geography test as part of the admissions process.
(d) It required all students to pass a geography test in order to graduate from Georgetown.

2. What was Earth like during its first 800 million years?
(a) Earth had a temperate climate.
(b) Earth had warm and cool regions.
(c) Earth was covered in ice.
(d) Earth was very hot.

3. When President Ronald Reagan visited Brazil, where did he tell people he was happy to be?
(a) Belgium.
(b) The Bahamas.
(c) Bahrain.
(d) Bolivia.

4. How did the volcano explosion in Sumatra affect life on Earth?
(a) It caused an incredible explosion of genetic diversity, producing many new species.
(b) It caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
(c) It was connected with the beginning of the evolution of modern humans.
(d) It caused an evolutionary bottleneck in which much genetic diversity was lost.

5. What does de Blij mean when he refers to a mental map?
(a) He means the map of each person's individual universe: one's neighborhood, school, and community.
(b) He means that the brain changes structurally as a result of studying cartography.
(c) He means the brain's ability to visualize maps mentally when no map is available.
(d) He means the map of the brain that is being developed by neuroscientists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of location must be given in degrees, minutes, and seconds of longitude and latitude?

2. What war does de Blij say could have been better handled if U.S. leaders had had a better grasp of geography?

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

4. What do geographers mean when they use the abbreviation "B.P."?

5. Which country does de Blij think that Americans should try to be particularly well-informed about?

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