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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do geographers analyze using the gravity model?
(a) Current events.
(b) The history of Earth.
(c) Plate tectonics.
(d) Interaction between cities.

2. Which of the following empires thrived during the Medieval Optimum?
(a) The Russian and French Empires.
(b) The Aztec and Mayan Empires.
(c) The Roman and Han Empires.
(d) The Empire of Alexander the Great.

3. What did European countries fail to consider when they colonized Africa?
(a) The needs of the indigenous people.
(b) The size of the continent.
(c) The distance from Europe.
(d) The urban populations.

4. What is a madrassas?
(a) A Muslim church or temple.
(b) A place where Muslims go on pilgrimmage.
(c) An Islamic holy place.
(d) An Islamic extremist school.

5. Which of the following activities requires the skills of a geographer?
(a) Studying the history and current events of a particular country.
(b) Tracking outbreaks of disease and predicting where diseases will spread in the future.
(c) Comparing the structures of government in two different cultures.
(d) Traveling to a distant place and blogging about the trip in an online journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were many Americans shocked when Nixon went to China?

2. What are China's current territorial claims based on?

3. What country did Afghan refugees flee to when the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan?

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

5. What other university departments does de Blij feel should be resurrected, along with geography departments?

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