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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What treaty, signed by Italy, France, West Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg in 1957, created the European Economic Community?
(a) The Treaty of Versailles.
(b) The Treaty of Rome.
(c) The Treaty of Brussels.
(d) The Treaty of Maastricht.

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

4. Which of the following countries was never colonized by Europe?
(a) Kenya.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) Egypt.

5. What is the name of the interglacial that we are currently in?
(a) The Holocene.
(b) The Atlanticum.
(c) The Subboreal.
(d) The Eemian.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does de Blij think that the U.S. should react to terrorist attacks on airplanes?

2. What kind of a map did Vladimir Koppen devise?

3. What issue has caused conflicts along the border between Germany and the Netherlands?

4. Which part of Africa has been Islamic since the 7th century?

5. What event caused Earth's most recent mass extinction?

(see the answer key)

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