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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why should Americans take a special interest in Africa?
(a) Because an African country may someday become a superpower.
(b) Because African countries need American foreign aid.
(c) Because the United States needs immigrants from Africa.
(d) Because the African-American population has ancestral links to Africa.

2. What group provides al Qaeda with most of its soldiers?
(a) Disenchanted Afghan young people.
(b) Muslims who have lived in Western countries.
(c) Former students of the madrassas.
(d) Conservative Muslim cleric-teachers.

3. What methods did European powers use to subjugate Africa?
(a) Inspiration and role-modeling.
(b) Foreign aid, food, and public education.
(c) Fear, intimidation, and violence.
(d) Incentives and rewards.

4. What is the Triple Frontier?
(a) Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia.
(b) Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh.
(c) Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras.
(d) Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil.

5. Why did many observers argue that Turkey should be allowed to join the European Union?
(a) Because Turkey will become an economic superpower in the next century.
(b) Because Turkey is geographically part of Europe and Asia.
(c) Because Europe's influence would discourage terrorist activity in Turkey.
(d) Because it would improve understanding between the Christian and Muslim worlds.

6. What geographic challenges does Russia have?
(a) It has frequent mudslides and earthquakes.
(b) It has very few natural resources.
(c) Its territory is very small and cramped.
(d) It is landlocked and lies in high latitudes.

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

8. Which of the following was the only other country to recognize Chechnya as independent in 1999?
(a) Saudi Arabia.
(b) The United States.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Afghanistan.

9. What is Russia's connection with the European Union?
(a) Russia is not being considered for admission to the European Union.
(b) Russia was once, but no longer is, part of the European Union.
(c) Russia is likely to be accepted into the European Union.
(d) Russia was invited, but has refused to join, the European Union.

10. Why do the Chechens feel particularly strong about pursuing their independence?
(a) Natural resources in Chechnya could more easily be developed after independence.
(b) Chechens were inspired by the independence gained by neighboring countries.
(c) Stalin forced all the Chechens to travel to Siberia during World War II.
(d) Russia's government is too corrupt for most Chechens.

11. How did China change after Mao's death?
(a) It became much more isolated.
(b) It turned to a more agriculturally-based economy.
(c) It stopped being Communist.
(d) It began to have a more market-driven economy.

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

13. How do subsidizing American farmers hurt Africans?
(a) It does not give African farmers an incentive to work more efficiently.
(b) It takes away money that would otherwise be sent to Africa.
(c) It makes it impossible for African farmers to compete in the global market.
(d) It makes it harder for African farmers to get subsidies from other countries too.

14. Why did both the United States and the Soviet Union support African tyrants?
(a) Because both countries needed military support from African leaders.
(b) Because neither country wanted to share its system of government with other countries.
(c) Because coping with a tyrant seemed better than losing a battle in the Cold War.
(d) Because neither country wanted to be forced to give aid to Africa.

15. What factors have helped to bring about the recovery of Europe after World War II?
(a) Economic improvements and the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.
(b) A good position geographically and temperate weather.
(c) Cultural homogeneity and speaking a single language.
(d) Foreign aid from the United States and from the former Soviet Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Europe's population compare with the population of the United States?

2. According to de Blij, what is geographically contentious about Europe?

3. In which of the following nations is terrorism likely to thrive, according to de Blij?

4. What was the Cultural Revolution?

5. In which of the following countries are Muslims and Christians at war with each other?

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