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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 are China's current territorial claims based on?
(a) The boundaries that China had after World War I.
(b) The boundaries that China had at the time of the Cultural Revolution.
(c) The boundaries that China had after World War II.
(d) The boundaries of the Qing (Machu) Dynasty.

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

3. What event became known in China as the "Great Leap Forward"?
(a) Collectivization of farms.
(b) Implementation of the one family, one child policy.
(c) The campaign against Confucianism.
(d) The invasion of Tibet.

4. What did H.J. Mackinder argue in what de Blij calls the "most often cited article in geography"?
(a) That the next superpower would be from east Asia.
(b) That the next superpower would be the United States.
(c) That the next superpower would have nuclear weapons.
(d) That the next superpower would be a Eurasian land-based country.

5. Why were many Americans shocked when Nixon went to China?
(a) Because China was a dangerous place to visit.
(b) Because China had a terrible human rights record.
(c) Because China was a Communist country.
(d) Because China was not a Christian country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Afghanistan like today?

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

3. What is a fatwa?

4. Why does de Blij feel that it is appropriate to end Why Geography Matters with a chapter on Africa?

5. What is the Triple Frontier?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Russia's geographic advantages and disadvantages.

4. How did European actions produce havoc in Africa?

5. What kinds of places do terrorists thrive in?

6. What advantages does Russia have in today's world?

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

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

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

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

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