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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Marshall Plan?
(a) A plan for European countries to agree never to go to war again.
(b) A plan for Western European countries to be rebuilt with U.S. aid.
(c) A plan for defeating communism in Eastern Europe.
(d) A plan for connecting all of Europe as one big country.

2. What changes does de Blij suggest show that the European Union may eventually form one nation?
(a) Newspapers and bullet trains that link countries and share patrons.
(b) Political statements that show leaders intend to merge all of Europe's countries into one.
(c) Sharing a currency and allowing travelers to cross borders without documentation.
(d) Military alliances and shared weapons and intelligence.

3. What methods did European powers use to subjugate Africa?
(a) Inspiration and role-modeling.
(b) Foreign aid, food, and public education.
(c) Incentives and rewards.
(d) Fear, intimidation, and violence.

4. What happened in Russia in the year 2000 that de Blij says was previously unimaginable?
(a) An invasion by one of its former satellite countries.
(b) A democratic transition of power.
(c) The development of a transportation infrastructure.
(d) An unusually long summer growing season.

5. Why did both the United States and the Soviet Union support African tyrants?
(a) Because neither country wanted to share its system of government with other countries.
(b) Because both countries needed military support from African leaders.
(c) Because coping with a tyrant seemed better than losing a battle in the Cold War.
(d) Because neither country wanted to be forced to give aid to Africa.

6. Why should Americans take a special interest in Africa?
(a) Because the United States needs immigrants from Africa.
(b) Because African countries need American foreign aid.
(c) Because the African-American population has ancestral links to Africa.
(d) Because an African country may someday become a superpower.

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

8. What is the Triple Frontier?
(a) Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras.
(b) Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh.
(c) Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil.
(d) Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia.

9. What is a fatwa?
(a) An extremist Islamic school.
(b) A holy war.
(c) A religious pilgrimmage.
(d) A proclamation dictating how Muslims should live.

10. Who was Shamil Basayev?
(a) An Islamic cleric-teacher with a great deal of influence.
(b) Russia's first president after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
(c) The leader of an organized crime gang.
(d) A leader in the Chechen independence movement.

11. When did the Qing Dynasty collapse?
(a) In 820.
(b) In 2000.
(c) In 1610.
(d) In 1911.

12. What event contributed to the end of Mao's power in China?
(a) Flooding.
(b) Twin earthquakes.
(c) A tsunami.
(d) A famine.

13. In which of the following nations is terrorism likely to thrive, according to de Blij?
(a) Somalia and Eritrea.
(b) Spain and Portugal.
(c) Guatemala and Nicaragua.
(d) China and India.

14. What three groups fought over China in the early 20th century?
(a) Corporations, human rights agencies, and the United Nations.
(b) Northerners, Southerners, and guerilla revolutionaries.
(c) Mongols, Koreans, and the Vietnamese.
(d) Nationalists, Communists, and the Japanese.

15. How do subsidizing American farmers hurt Africans?
(a) It does not give African farmers an incentive to work more efficiently.
(b) It takes away money that would otherwise be sent to Africa.
(c) It makes it impossible for African farmers to compete in the global market.
(d) It makes it harder for African farmers to get subsidies from other countries too.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do many people argue that it is pointless to send foreign aid to Africa?

2. Which of the following was the only other country to recognize Chechnya as independent in 1999?

3. What is the easiest way to trace how terrorist groups get funded?

4. How does de Blij characterize sub-Saharan Africa?

5. Why is sub-Saharan Africa so isolated?

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