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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How do geographers look at the world, according to de Blij?
(a) Chronologically.
(b) Structurally.
(c) Spatially.
(d) Temporally.
2. Which of the following activities requires the skills of a geographer?
(a) Studying the history and current events of a particular country.
(b) Traveling to a distant place and blogging about the trip in an online journal.
(c) Comparing the structures of government in two different cultures.
(d) Tracking outbreaks of disease and predicting where diseases will spread in the future.
3. What other university departments does de Blij feel should be resurrected, along with geography departments?
(a) Interdisciplinary studies departments.
(b) Departments of regional studies.
(c) History departments.
(d) Sociology departments.
4. What did Georgetown University decide to do in response to the geographic illiteracy of incoming students?
(a) It required all students to pass a geography test as part of the admissions process.
(b) It required all students to take a class called Map of the Modern World.
(c) It required all students to take four years of geography.
(d) It required all students to pass a geography test in order to graduate from Georgetown.
5. What technological development revolutionized cartography?
(a) The invention of the printing press.
(b) The invention of the compass.
(c) The invention of the ruler.
(d) The invention of the airplane.
Short Answer Questions
1. What approach to foreign affairs is fostered by the decision not to teach geography in public schools?
2. Which of the following maps can you derive the most accurate estimates of distances from?
3. When does de Blij say that geography began to decline in the United States?
4. How long have people been making maps?
5. Who formulated a grid that is still used to make map projections of the world?
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