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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the USSR?
(a) The group that fought for Afghan independence during the 1980s.
(b) The Asian version of the European Union.
(c) One of the world's two superpowers during the Cold War.
(d) An exclave of Russia located along its northern border.

3. What other country supported the mujahideen in Afghanistan?
(a) India.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Bangladesh.
(d) China.

4. What three groups fought over China in the early 20th century?
(a) Northerners, Southerners, and guerilla revolutionaries.
(b) Mongols, Koreans, and the Vietnamese.
(c) Corporations, human rights agencies, and the United Nations.
(d) Nationalists, Communists, and the Japanese.

5. What was Russia like during the early years after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
(a) Orderly.
(b) Chaotic.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Unified.

6. How long has the European unification movement been underway?
(a) Since the League of Nations was formed.
(b) Since the break-up of the former Soviet Union.
(c) Since the end of World War I.
(d) Since the U.S. initiated the Marshall Plan in 1948.

7. How does de Blij think that the U.S. should react to terrorist attacks on airplanes?
(a) Resume normal operations as quickly as possible after an attack.
(b) Require all American passengers to carry passports with them at all times.
(c) Ground all planes and institute stricter security measures after each attack.
(d) Stop allowing people from other countries to enter the United States.

8. How did the slave trade between 1700 and 1810 affect Africa?
(a) Europeans brought diseases to Africa that killed off even more people.
(b) African governments became much more corrupt.
(c) The social order collapsed because one sixth of the population was gone.
(d) The slave trade brought Africa into the global economy.

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

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

11. What is the world's largest country in terms of territory?
(a) Canada.
(b) Russia.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Australia.

12. Which part of Africa has been Islamic since the 7th century?
(a) South Africa.
(b) West Africa.
(c) Central Africa.
(d) North Africa.

13. How does the Chechen independence movement affect Groznyy?
(a) Groznyy is devastated by fighting.
(b) Groznyy is bombed into a shell of a city.
(c) Groznyy's unemployment rate skyrockets.
(d) Much of Groznyy's population emigrates to Russia.

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

15. Who was Shamil Basayev?
(a) The leader of an organized crime gang.
(b) An Islamic cleric-teacher with a great deal of influence.
(c) A leader in the Chechen independence movement.
(d) Russia's first president after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which direction are terrorists most likely to enter the U.S., according to de Blij?

2. Why should Americans take a special interest in Africa?

3. What does de Blij say is the difference between terrorist acts committed by the Corsicans, the Basques, the Tamils, and the Chechens, and terrorist acts committed by al Qaeda?

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

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

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