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

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

3. 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 have nuclear weapons.
(c) That the next superpower would be a Eurasian land-based country.
(d) That the next superpower would be the United States.

4. Why was Turkey's application to the European Union viewed as controversial?
(a) Because Turkey is an Islamic country.
(b) Because Turkey has a poor human rights record and a militarized government.
(c) Because Turkey is geographically more a part of Asia than Europe.
(d) Because Turkey is culturally very different from European countries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease is currently at epidemic levels in sub-Saharan Africa?

2. 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?

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

4. What other country supported the mujahideen in Afghanistan?

5. What event contributed to the end of Mao's power in China?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What long-standing dispute does Russia have with Japan?

3. What kinds of places do terrorists thrive in?

4. Describe Russia's geographic advantages and disadvantages.

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

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

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

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

9. Who is Usama (or Osama) bin Laden?

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

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