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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does de Blij feel that it is appropriate to end Why Geography Matters with a chapter on Africa?
(a) Because sub-Saharan Africa has been so geographically isolated.
(b) Because African countries are becoming important economic powers.
(c) Because the world owes a debt to Africa from the time of the slave trade.
(d) Because humanity first evolved in Africa.

2. What did Georgetown University decide to do in response to the geographic illiteracy of incoming students?
(a) It required all students to pass a geography test as part of the admissions process.
(b) It required all students to pass a geography test in order to graduate from Georgetown.
(c) It required all students to take a class called Map of the Modern World.
(d) It required all students to take four years of geography.

3. What group provides al Qaeda with most of its soldiers?
(a) Conservative Muslim cleric-teachers.
(b) Muslims who have lived in Western countries.
(c) Disenchanted Afghan young people.
(d) Former students of the madrassas.

4. In which of the following countries are Muslims and Christians at war with each other?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Morocco.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Sudan.

5. What causes the drift of Earth's continents?
(a) The Moon's gravity.
(b) Ocean currents and tides.
(c) Ice Ages.
(d) Plate tectonics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had to happen before Earth's land masses could form?

2. Which of the following countries adds nine or ten million people to the world's population every year?

3. When did the nation-state emerge in Europe?

4. What event became known in China as the "Great Leap Forward"?

5. What does the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea do?

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