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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Dr. John Snow use maps to save lives in London during the 19th century?
(a) He used them to decide where to put streetlights.
(b) He used them to plot the locations of attacks during a crime wave.
(c) He used them to teach firefighters to find their way around London.
(d) He used them to plot new cases of cholera.

2. What does de Blij mean when he refers to a mental map?
(a) He means the brain's ability to visualize maps mentally when no map is available.
(b) He means the map of the brain that is being developed by neuroscientists.
(c) He means that the brain changes structurally as a result of studying cartography.
(d) He means the map of each person's individual universe: one's neighborhood, school, and community.

3. How do geographers look at the world, according to de Blij?
(a) Spatially.
(b) Temporally.
(c) Structurally.
(d) Chronologically.

4. What other university departments does de Blij feel should be resurrected, along with geography departments?
(a) History departments.
(b) Interdisciplinary studies departments.
(c) Departments of regional studies.
(d) Sociology departments.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who would be most likely to use a large scale map?

3. What kind of map does not distort reality?

4. What profession does de Blij say should include training in cartography?

5. What did Georgetown University decide to do in response to the geographic illiteracy of incoming students?

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