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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which country does de Blij think that Americans should try to be particularly well-informed about?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Mexico.
(c) China.
(d) Botswana.

2. Why has the United States been so slow to convert maps to the metric system?
(a) Geographers prefer not to use the metric system in maps until it is used for other things too.
(b) U.S. geographers are not accustomed to the metric system and prefer not to use it.
(c) The metric system is not as efficient for mapmaking as the English system of measurement.
(d) The Ordinance of 1785 required land to be laid out in township squares measured in feet.

3. Which of the following activities requires the skills of a geographer?
(a) Studying the history and current events of a particular country.
(b) Tracking outbreaks of disease and predicting where diseases will spread in the future.
(c) Traveling to a distant place and blogging about the trip in an online journal.
(d) Comparing the structures of government in two different cultures.

4. What kind of map does not distort reality?
(a) An equal area projection.
(b) A globe.
(c) A conical projection.
(d) A cynlindrical projection.

5. What two countries were mixed up by President Nixon's staff?
(a) The Congo and Cuba.
(b) Brazil and Bolivia.
(c) Mauritania and Mauritius.
(d) India and Indonesia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is a compass rose more useful in the United States than in Europe?

2. Why does de Blij feel that Americans have an obligation to be well informed?

3. When does de Blij say that geography began to decline in the United States?

4. Why is geography different from other disciplines, according to de Blij?

5. What approach to foreign affairs is fostered by the decision not to teach geography in public schools?

(see the answer key)

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