Test 3

Question 1

A soft brown coal

Answer 1

Lignite

Question 2

A general decline in business activity

Answer 2

Recession

Question 3

What they call a state in Switzerland

Answer 3

Canton

Question 4

A general increase in prices

Answer 4

Inflation

Question 5

Land reclaimed from the sea

Answer 5

Polder

Question 6

A loose organization of independent states

Answer 6

Confederation

Question 7

Money paid for damages inflicted

Answer 7

Reparations

Question 8

Not taking a side in a conflict

Answer 8

Neutral

Question 9

Bringing industries under state control is what

Answer 9

Nationalizing

Question 10

A style of painting that involves giving a feeling

Answer 10

Impressionism

Question 11

Farming is/is not a major economic activity in the alps

Answer 11

Is not

Question 12

Why is the rural valley important to Germany

Answer 12

Because it produces most of their iron and steel

Question 13

List the countries

Answer 13

Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

Question 14

Germany was unified during the 1900s as a result of what

Answer 14

Pressure from her citizens

Question 15

Germany was unified in the 1800s as a result of what

Answer 15

Activism from Prussia

Question 16

This lies in southern France

Answer 16

Massif Central

Question 17

France has recently privatized some ___ owned businesses

Answer 17

Government

Question 18

Where is the chief center of commercial industry in France located

Answer 18

In the Paris suburbs

Question 19

Germany’s most important industrial centers are located where

Answer 19

The central part of the country

Question 20

The people of where are constantly trying to reclaim their land from the sea

Answer 20

The Netherlands

Question 21

___ has shifted to a high Tec based economy

Answer 21

Luxembourg

Question 22

The resource rich regions in France are

Answer 22

Alsace and Lorain

Question 23

The government of France is attempting to preserve the purity of what

Answer 23

The French language