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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country's model should be followed by the U.S. in responding to terrorist attacks, according to de Blij?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Canada.
(d) Israel.

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

3. What is Afghanistan like today?
(a) It is a modern Islamic country.
(b) It has become a satellite of Communist Russia.
(c) It lacks most modern amenities.
(d) It has a thriving agriculturally-based economy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was the only other country to recognize Chechnya as independent in 1999?

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

3. What river does de Blij refer to as the "Mississippi of West Africa"?

4. Why did both the United States and the Soviet Union support African tyrants?

5. Why was Turkey's application to the European Union viewed as controversial?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does de Blij say that Chinese nationalists see the U.S. as arrogant?

2. What areas of the globe have become hubs for terrorist activity?

3. What are some different definitions of terrorism?

4. Where do terrorist groups get money to carry out their training, preparations and attacks?

5. Why does de Blij quote Napoleon's remark that China was a sleeping giant and that whoever woke it up would regret it?

6. What problems did the Bolsheviks inherit from the czarist government in Russia?

7. How does the population distribution of Europe differ from that of the United States?

8. How does de Blij think that the United States could avoid another Cold War?

9. Why does it surprise so many people that European countries have managed to join together to form the European Union?

10. Describe the geographic roots of sub-Saharan Africa's isolation.

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