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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab?
(a) The leader of a terrorist movement targeting Americans.
(b) A conservative, extremist Muslim theologian.
(c) The founder of Islam.
(d) The leader of the Iranian government.

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

3. What historical event may have given rise to the stories in many cultures of a Great Flood?
(a) The flooding of the Black Sea area.
(b) The Medieval Optimum.
(c) Seismic waves after the eruption of Thira.
(d) The Postglacial Optimum.

4. What does de Blij think may eventually happen to the European Union?
(a) It may collapse into disorder and economic chaos.
(b) It may become a superpower that challenges U.S. dominance.
(c) It will become a hub for terrorism and will become a troubled region.
(d) It will become overwhelmed by foreign debt and domestic taxes.

5. Why does de Blij say that it is problematic for urban areas to continue to expand?
(a) Because urban landscapes change local geography.
(b) Because urban areas have high infant mortality rates.
(c) Because urban areas have higher crime rates.
(d) Because urban populations get their food from rural areas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does de Blij say that the Snowball Earth theory explains?

2. What was Earth like during its first 800 million years?

3. What is the name for the area in which the cities of Ramadi, Tikrit, Baghdad, and Fallujah lie?

4. If Earth's population keeps growing at the present rate, how high will it be by the year 2035?

5. Which of the following countries adds nine or ten million people to the world's population every year?

(see the answer key)

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