Test 4 Flashcards
Which of the following is not included in the North Africa/Southwest Asia realm?
a. Pakistan
b. Iran
c. Iraq
d. Tunisia
e. Afghanistan
a. Pakistan
Which area was least influenced by the spread of Islam?
a. Yemen
b. Bosnia
c. China
d. Northern Nigeria
e. Turkestan
c. China
Shi’ite Muslims constitute the great majority of the population of:
a. Egypt
b. Israel
c. Saudi Arabia
d. Turkey
e. Iran
e. Iran
About 85 percent of Muslims consider themselves:
a. Imams
b. Shi’ite
c. Asian Orthodox
d. Sharia
e. Sunni
e. Sunni
The dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia is:
a. Sharia
b. Wahhabism
c. Shi’ite
d. Dubai
e. Maronite
b. Wahhabism
The empire that ruled over much of Southwest Asia prior to World War I was the:
a. Ottoman
b. Persian
c. Byzantine
d. British
e. Russian
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Which of the following countries is not a major oil producer?
a. Kuwait
b. Azerbaijan
c. Iraq
d. Iran
e. Turkey
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Which of the following statements is incorrect?
a. The overwhelming majority of Egypt’s people live within a dozen miles of the Nile.
b. The Blue Nile originates in Ethiopia.
c. The largest of all Nile River control projects is the Aswan High Dam.
d. Egypt’s largest city, Cairo, is located on the shore of Lake Nasser in Upper Egypt.
e. The White Nile originates in East Africa
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The city of _____ is located at the confluence of the White Nile and Blue Nile, and serves as the capital of _____.
a. Khartoum/Sudan
b. Timbuktu/Ethiopia
c. Cairo/Egypt
d. Kabol/Afghanistan
e. Basra/Iraq
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The Aswan High Dam is located on the:
a. Shatt-al-Arab
b. Nile River
c. Jordan River
d. Suez Cana
e. The Tigris River
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Egypt’s peasant farmers are known as the:
a. Shatt-al-Arabs
b. Fellaheen
c. Shi’ites
d. Toilers of the Tell
e. Bedouins
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Which of the following is not located in the vicinity of the Nile Delta?
a. Alexandria
b. Aswan High Dam
c. Cairo
d. Suez Canal
e. Lower Egypt
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The upstream country that could control the flow of the Nile River into Egypt is:
a. Iraq
b. Sudan
c. Israel
d. Libya
e. Chad
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Which of the following is not located within the Maghreb region?
a. The Atlas Mountains
b. Casablanca
c. The countries that were once called the Barbary states
d. The Mecca area of the Arabian Peninsula
e. The area known as The Tell
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The western North African countries of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco are collectively called:
a. The Maghreb
b. The African Transition Zone
c. The Near East
d. The Tell
e. The Levant
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Which of the following oil producers does not border the Persian Gulf?
a. Iran
b. Kuwait
c. Libya
d. Saudi Arabia
e. United Arab Emirates
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The major mountain range in North Africa is the:
a. Sahara Uplands
b. Atlas Mountains
c. Libyan Alps
d. Sandes
e. Golan Heights
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Which North African country fought a bitter war of liberation against the French?
a. Egypt
b. Libya
c. Algeria
d. Tunisia
e. Sudan
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This country is the smallest in North Africa, but has the highest GNI per capita in North Africa.
a. Chad
b. Israel
c. Tunisia
d. Morocco
e. Libya
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Which of the following rivers flows through Iraq?
a. Euphrates b) Jordan c) White Nile d) Blue Nile e) Indus
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In Iraq, the Shi’ite population is concentrated in:
a. the northwest b) the capital c) the western border area near Jordan d) the
southeast e) the Shi’ite Triangle in the center
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Iraq’s oil cities of Kirkuk and Mosul are located within the area of _____ population.
a. Kurdish b) Iranian c) Shi’ite d) Kuwaiti e) Sunni
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The Syrians have lost which piece of territory to the Israelis?
a. Gaza b) Lebanon c) the West Bank d) the Golan Heights e) Kurdistan
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Jordan has absorbed large numbers of:
a. Lebanese b) Israelis c) Kurds d) South Syrians e) Palestinians
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The most populous city in North Africa/Southwest Asia is:
a. Cairo b) Istanbul c) Tehran d) Bagdad e) Khartoum
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The modern state of Israel was created in:
a. 1923 b) 1937 c) 1948 d) 1959 e) 1967
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Israel regards which city as its capital?
a. Tel Aviv b) Haifa c) Beirut d) Jerusalem e) Golan
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The state of Israel:
a. was settled by people fleeing the Zionist policies of Nazi Germany b) was created from
territory that was formerly administered by the British c) was a part of the Ottoman Empire
that was ceded to the Israelis in 1923 d) was created out of the country of Palestine that
previously had no Jewish population e) was founded after World War I
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Which of the following countries does not share a common border with Israel?
a. Iran b) Egypt c) Jordan d) Lebanon e) Syria
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The largest oil reserves in the realm are located in:
a. Israel b) Libya c) Kuwait d) Saudi Arabia e) Iran
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In Saudi Arabia:
a. petroleum reserves are concentrated in the west b) annual rainfall is almost everywhere
under 10 inches c) the Rub al Khali lies in the national core area d) its declining population
now barely exceeds 10 million e) Shi’ites outnumber Sunni Muslims
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Which of the following countries is not located on the Arabian Peninsula
a. Syria b) Kuwait c) Oman d) Qatar e) Bahrain
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The Rub al Khali (Empty Quarter) lies near the border between Saudi Arabia and:
a. Israel b) Iraq c) Yemen d) Dubai e) Kuwait
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The United Arab Emirates includes the oil-rich sheikhdom known as:
a. Kuwait b) Oman c) Abu Dhabi d) Bahrain e) Qatar
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The choke point known as the _____ lies between Yemen and Djibouti.
a. Hormuz Strait b) Shatt-al-Arab c) Bab el Mandeb Strait d) Gulf of Suez e) Strait
of Gibraltar
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The Ottoman Empire was headquartered in the city of:
a. Constantinople b) Mecca c) Jerusalem d) Baghdad e) Alexandria
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Kemal Atatürk is most closely identified with the city of:
a. Constantinople b) Mecca c) Tehran d) Ankara e) Baghdad
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Iran differs from most of the North Africa/Southwest Asian realm in that:
a. it is non-Islamic b) it borders Russia c) it is predominantly Shi’ite d) it is ruled by a
monarchy e) it has no oil deposits
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The capital of Iran, located in the foothills of the Elburz Mountains is:
a. Khomeini City b) Tehran c) Ahmadinejad d) Persepolis e) Baghdad
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Which of the following is not one of the republics of Turkestan?
a. Kazakhstan b) Uzbekistan c) Turkmenistan d) Azerbaijan e) Tajikistan
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The majority population in the north of Kazakhstan is:
a. Kazakh b) Russian c) Uzbek d) Armenian e) Turkmenia
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The body of water devastated by Soviet irrigation schemes is the:
a. Black Sea b) Aral Sea c) Caspian Sea d) Shatt-al-Arab e) Sea of Galilee
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Which of the following republics of Turkestan contains an ethnic majority of Persian origin?
a. Kazakhstan b) Uzbekistan c) Turkmenistan d) Tajikistan e) Afghanistan
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The most important ethnic group in Afghanistan is the:
a. Pashtuns b) Turkmen c) Taliban d) Kurds e) Qaeda
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The southern margin of the Sahara is a semi-arid zone known as:
a. The Namib b) Congo c) The Sahel d) Ghana e) Ethiopia
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Which of the following countries is not a major oil producer:
a. Libya b) Iran c) Saudi Arabia d) Iraq e) Lebanon
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The countries of the Maghreb:
a. are concentrated in northwestern most Africa b) are Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia c)
derive their sustenance from the slopes and life-giving rains drawn from the Atlas Mountains
d) were all drawn into the French colonial sphere e) all of the above
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At the time of Israel’s creation in 1948, the UN had assigned Jerusalem to be:
a. Israel’s capital b) Jordon’s capital c) the capital of both Israel and a Palestinian state
d) an international city e) an independent city-state
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The predominant religion of Northern Africa and Southwestern Asia is:
a. Judaism b) Christianity c) Islam d) Buddhism e) Hinduism
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The country that sits atop an oil reserve which is, by far, the world’s largest, is:
a. Kuwait b) Saudi Arabia c) Iraq d) Iran e) Jordan
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The North Africa/Southwest Asia realm is sometimes called all of the following except:
a. The Dry World
b. The Middle East
c. An Arab World
d. The Fertile Land
e. An Islamic World
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The Ottomans, based in what is today _____, conquered Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453
and then pushed into southeastern Europe.
a. India b) Pakistan c) Syria d) Libya e) Turkey
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Most Egyptians live and work in _____.
a. Lower Egypt b) Middle Egypt c) Upper Egypt d) A and B e) A and C
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The smallest of the Maghreb states is _____.
a. Tunisia b) Algeria c) Morocco d) Libya e) Egypt
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All of the following are countries that comprise the Middle East except:
a. Iraq b) Jordan c) Syria d) Algeria e) Lebanon
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The two major states that dominate the region that lies immediately to the north of the Middle
East and Persian Gulf, where Arab ethnicity gives way but Islamic culture endures are _____.
a. Turkey and Kuwait b) Turkey and Iran c) Iran and Kuwait d) Iran and Libya e)
Bahrain and Qatar
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Which of the following is not one of the six states of Turkestan?
a. Kazakhstan b) Pakistan c) Turkmenistan d) Afghanistan e) Uzbekistan
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Country that split into two as a result of a long and bloody civil war:
a. EgyptB. Sudan C. Libya D. Turkey E. none of the above
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Loss of American officials from Benghazi consulate is being investigated by Congress in relations
to events in what country:
a. Mauritania B. Somali C. Eritrea D. Libya E. Tunisia
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Three largest countries in population size in North Africa/Southwest Asia are:
a. Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon B. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran C. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen D.
Egypt, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan E. Egypt, Iran, and Turkey
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In terms of oil production, the world’s leaders are:
a. The United States, Russia, and Saudi Arabia B. Iran and Iraq C. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia D. United
Arab Emirates and Qatar E. Mexico and the North Sea
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Two countries that united to form one are:
a. Oman and Muscat 13. North and South Arabia C. North and South Yemen D. Lebanon and
Syria E. Israel and Palestine
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Which two minority groups have complaints about their treatment by the Turks?
a. Kurds and Azeris B. Jews and Arabs C. Assyrians and Georgians D. Armenians and
Kurds E. Iranians and Syrians
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The economic future of Kazakhstan lies in the ______ supplies found near the Caspian Sea.
a. fish B. mineral salt C. oil D. silver E. natural gas
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A desert republic in Turkestan with significant new gas supplies?
a. Kazakhstan B. Uzbekistan C. Turkmenistan D. Azerbaijan E. Kyrgyzstan
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The country to which the US first sent ground troops to eradicate terrorism:
a. Sudan B. Saudi Arabia C. Afghanistan D. Iraq E. Pakistan
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Which of the following is associated with the concept of continental drift?
a. separate development b) Pangaea c) land alienation d) continentality e)
apartheid
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Before independence, the modern state of The Congo was a colony of:
a. France b) Germany c) Britain d) Belgium e) South Africa
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Which of the following states was not a colony of France prior to its independence?
a. Ivory Coast b) Chad c) Ghana d) Senegal e) Burkina Faso
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Which country lost its independence only briefly?
a. Zimbabwe b) Zambia c) Kenya d) Ethiopia e) Malawi
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The last country to give up its African colonies was:
a. the United States b) Germany c) France d) Belgium e) South Africa
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Which of the following countries is not located in Southern Africa?
a. Botswana b) Cameroon c) Zimbabwe d) Zambia e) Mozambique
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The great river of Southern Africa is the:
a. Zambezi b) Zimbabwe c) Niger d) Congo e) Angola
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A unique aspect of Madagascar is that:
a. the Great Rift Valley predominates in the central part of the country b) the population is of
Malay-Polynesian origin c) it produces exceptional quantities of salt d) the island is
controlled by the South Africans whose apartheid system prevailed there until 2003 e) most of
the population is of East African ancestry
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People of Dutch ancestry in South Africa are called:
a. Highveld Hollanders b) Afrikaners c) Cape Boers d) Great Trekkers e) the
Transylvania Dutch
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The Boer War took place in:
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a. Kenya b) South Africa c) the Netherlands d) Sudan e) Nigeria
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Which of the following statements is false?
a. Climatically, South Africa is Africa’s only true temperate-zone country b) South Africa
contains significant untapped petroleum reserves. c) South Africa’s white population is larger
than the white populations of all other Sub-Saharan African countries combined. d) South
Africa has large coal reserves. e) The Boers are now called the Afrikaners.
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The natural environment of Botswana is dominated by:
a. mountains associated with the Great Escarpment b) the Kalahari Desert c) coastal
swamps and deltas d) tropical rainforest e) the inland delta of the Niger River
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Which of the following countries is the home of the Shona and Ndebele tribes where whites
have been expelled by government-backed squatters seeking their land?
a. Botswana b) Cameroon c) Zimbabwe d) Zambia e) Tanzania
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The now-independent political entity that once was a German colony named South West Africa
is today known as:
a. Namibia b) Botswana c) Western Rhodesia d) Tanganyika e) Togo
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Which of the following countries is not located in East Africa?
a. Nigeria b) Kenya c) Uganda d) Tanzania e) Burundi
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Tourism, once a particularly important business in _____, struggles to remain viable in the face
of numerous challenges:
a. Liberia b) Kenya c) Uganda d) Burkina Faso e) Nigeria
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The ethnic group exerting the most control in Kenya is the:
a. Hutu b) Kikuyu c) Swahili d) Tutsi e) Xhosa
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Dar es Salaam is the capital of:
a. Saudi Arabia b) Tanzania c) Kenya d) Somalia e) Ethiopia
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Which of the following countries borders Lake Victoria?
a. Sudan b) Uganda c) Malawi d) The Congo e) Ethiopia
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Which of the following is a lingua franca?
a. Bantu b) Kalahari c) Swahili d) Sharia e) Niger-Kordofanian
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. Two countries which were originally part of German East Africa, but were given to the Belgians
after World War I are:
a. Tanzania and Kenya b) Zimbabwe and Zambia c) Zanzibar and Madagascar d)
Rwanda and Burundi e) Congo and The Congo
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Which of the following countries is not located in Equatorial Africa?
a. Gabon b) Congo c) Ivory Coast d) Cameroon e) Central African Republic
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The capital of The Congo is:
a. Nairobi b) Lagos c) Brazzaville d) Kinshasa e) Dakar
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The largest city in terms of population in Sub-Saharan Africa is?
a. Accra b) Lagos c) Cape Town d) Abidjan e) Nairobi
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The two groups who fought one another in the Rwandan civil war are the:
a. Xhosa, Yoruba b) Muslims, Christians c) Flemish, Walloons d) Hutus, Tutsis e)
Rwandans, Burundians
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The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and the only coastal capital is:
a. Congo b) Cameroon c) Central African Republic d) Gabon e) Angola
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The country in Equatorial Africa that had a border dispute with Nigeria over an oil-rich area is:
a. Congo b) Cameroon c) Central African Republic d) Gabon e) Chad
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Which of the following countries is located in the Bulge of Africa?
a. Senegal b) South Africa c) Somalia d) Chad e) Kenya
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Which two colonial powers dominated West Africa?
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a. Britain and France b) Portugal and Spain c) Germany and Britain d) U.S. and France
e) Belgium and the Netherlands
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Nigeria’s old capital of Lagos was situated within the culture area of the people known as the:
a. Ndebele b) Yoruba c) Boers d) Ibo e) Hausa
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The country that moved its capital from Lagos to the new centrally-located city of Abuja is:
a. Nigeria b) Tanzania c) The Congo d) Niger e) Ethiopia
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The first West African state to gain its independence, formerly called the Gold Coast, is:
a. Ghana b) Guinea c) Sierra Leone d) Gambia e) Benin
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This West African country borders Liberia, is a former French colony, and built a Roman Catholic
basilica in Yamoussoukro to rival St. Peter’s in Rome:
a. Ivory Coast b) Chad c) Niger d) Guinea e) Senegal
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Which of the following countries was established by former American slaves?
a. Gambia b) Guinea c) Guinea-Bissau d) Ghana e) Liberia
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Which of the following countries is not located in The African Transition Zone?
a. Mauritania b) Mali c) Niger d) Somalia e) Tanzania
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Most countries in the African Transition Zone have a _____ population in the north and a _____
population in the south.
a. relatively large/sparse b) Muslim/Christian-animist c) non-Muslim/Muslim d)
African/Saharan e) sedentary/nomadic
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Which of the following countries is located in the Horn of Africa?
a. Burkina Faso b) Mal c) Niger d) Nigeria e) Ethiopia
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This small country gains much of its importance because of its location on the Bab el Mandeb
Strait at the mouth of the Red Sea
a. Ethiopia b) Swaziland c) Niger d) Egypt e) Djibouti
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The landform term that best describes the African continent as a whole is:
a. plateau b) coastal plain c) mountain-and-valley flatland d) steppe e) altiplano
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The most important sector of the Sub-Saharan African economy is:
a. mining b) manufacturing c) agriculture d) tourism e) the periodic market
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Almost all African countries are:
a. nation-states b) plural societies c) European colonies d) culturally united e)
monarchies
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s richest region in terms of minerals is:
a. West Africa b) Southern Africa c) East Africa d) Equatorial Africa e) the African
Transition Zone
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The largest country in Equatorial Africa is:
a. Congo b) Cameroon c) Central African Republic d) The Congo e) Tanzania
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. The most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa, which also has significant oil supplies, is:
a. Namibia b) South Africa c) Ethiopia d) Kenya e) Nigeria
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The economy which is by far the largest and most diverse in Africa is found in:
a. South Africa b) Nigeria c) Kenya d) Botswana e) Namibia
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_____ is the giant of Southern Africa, its economy by far the largest of the entire realm.
a. The Republic of South Africa (RSA) b) Zimbabwe c) Botswana d) Namibia
e) Angola
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Of the four coastal countries of Equatorial Africa, _____ has the largest proven mineral
resources, including manganese, uranium and iron ore.
a. Gabon b) Cameroon c) Cabinda d) Principe e) The Central African Republic
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_____ is home to just over 155 million people, by far the largest population of any African
country.
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a. Ghana b) Nigeria c) Ivory Coast d) Benin e) Chad
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Africa’s Horn is an especially volatile sub-region of the African Transition Zone, which contains all
of the following countries except:
a. Ghana b) Ethiopia c) Eritrea d) Djibouti e) Somalia
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What has been used by African countries to protect their wildlife resources?
a. banning hunting B. expanding national parks C. combating poaching D. protecting migration
corridors. E. all of the above are used
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The worst of the African diseases is:
a. malaria B. tsetse C. schistosomiasis D. river blindness E. black plague
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Much of the slave trade out of East Africa (Kenya) was carried on by the:
a. British B. French C. Arabs D. Greeks E. Slays
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The colonial ruler of Ghana was:
a. Britain B. Portugal C. Italy D. France E. The Guyanese
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Which of the following is not one of the legacies of European colonization in Africa?
a. positioning of national boundaries B. development of transport patterns C. location of capitals
D. development of the urban system E. development of democracies
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Which religion has taken hold most strongly in Africa in recent years?
a. Christianity B. Islam C. Buddhism D. Africanism E. Coptic
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The mineral that changed the economic geography of South Africa was:
a. gold B. diamonds C. copper D. iron E. opals
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As a group, the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico constitute:
a. Latin America b) the Rimland c) the Hispanic Caribbean d) the West Indies e)
the Greater Antilles
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Which of the following countries is located within the culture hearth known as Mesoamerica?
a. Puerto Rico b) the United States c) Guatemala d) Jamaica e) Panama
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Mestizos are persons who are of mixed ____________ heritage.
a. European and African b) European and Amerindian c) Portuguese and Spanish
d) Amerindian and African e) Aztec and Maya
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Middle America’s largest country today in terms of both area and population is:
a. Mexico b) Hispaniola c) Cuba d) Panama e) Trinidad
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The current population of Mexico is ________ million.
a. 28 b) 41 c) 57 d) 81 e) 118
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A maquiladora is:
a. the owner of an ejido b) a foreign-owned factory in northern and southern Mexico and
Central America that assembles duty-free goods c) a person of mixed European-Amerindian
ancestry d) a Mayan plantation e) a new miracle crop being introduced in Chiapas
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Which of the following countries does not have a common border with Guatemala?
a. El Salvador b) Honduras c) Belize d) Nicaragua e) Mexico
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. The Central American country where English is spoken, but where Spanish will eventually
become the predominant language is:
a. Jamaica b) Guatemala c) Costa Rica d) Trinidad e) Belize
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While other Central American countries were called banana republics, this country was a
coffee republic:
a. Cuba b) Guatemala c) Mexico d) El Salvador e) Colombia
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The capital of Nicaragua, located on the mountainous Pacific side of the country, is:
a. Tegucigalpa b) Guadeloupe c) Nicaragua City d) Managua e) San José
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The Switzerland of Central America, the region’s oldest democratic republic, is:
a. Nicaragua b) Jamaica c) Belize d) Honduras e) Costa Rica
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. As one travels north leaving South America, the first country encountered on the Central
American land bridge is ________.
a. Costa Rica b) Panama c) El Salvador d) Nicaragua e) Aruba
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As a result of U.S. interest in a Panama Canal during the early 20th century:
a. Panama became a U.S. territory b) a treaty was drawn up granting the U.S. permanent
sovereignty over the Canal Zone c) Panama became independent from Colombia d) a
Panamanian revolt was subdued by U.S. intervention e) a French company finally completed
the canal in 1918
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The Panama Canal was opened in ________.
a. 1531 b) 1810 c) 1914 d) 1924 e) 2000
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A person of mixed European-African ancestry is a:
a. mulatto b) Mestizos c) Native American d) Maya e) maquiladora
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Which Caribbean island contains more than one state?
a. Puerto Rico b) Cuba c) Barbados d) Trinidad e) Hispaniola
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The most important crop raised in Cuba before the fall of the Soviet Union was:
a. ethanol b) coffee c) sugarcane d) cocaine e) bananas
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Which island is the Caribbean’s leading bauxite producer?
a. Trinidad b) Cuba c) the Bahamas d) Jamaica e) Hispaniola
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An industry whose success is a mixed blessing for the Caribbean region is:
a. agriculture b) oil production c) online gambling d) tourism e) illicit drugs
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Middle America’s largest city is:
a. Havana b) Bogotá c) Santo Domingo d) Panama City e) Mexico City
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Which of the following colonial associations is incorrect?
a. Britain and Jamaica b) France and Haiti c) the Netherlands and Aruba d) Spain
and Puerto Rico e) Britain and the Dominican Republic
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Which of the following Caribbean countries possesses major natural gas deposits:
a. the Dominican Republic b) Cuba c) Trinidad and Tobago d) Martinique e)
Barbados
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More than one million Puerto Ricans have migrated to:
a. Miami b) San José c) Spain d) Caracas e) New York
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The archipelago to the north of Cuba that was formerly a British dependency is called the:
a. Greater Antilles b) Bahamas c) North Indies d) Bermuda Triangle e) A-B-C
Islands
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. Which of the following countries contains the heart of the ancient Mayan empire?
a. Cuba b) Nicaragua c) Costa Rica d) Honduras e) Guatemala
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement among these countries:
a. The United States, Canada and France b) The United States, Canada and Mexico c)
Canada, Mexico and France d) Canada, Mexico and Africa e) The United States, Mexico
and Africa
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The richest 20% of the South American population control _____ of the realm’s wealth.
a. 2% b) 20% c) 50% d) 60% e) 70%
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The control center of the Incan Empire was:
a. Cuzco b) Lima c) Brasilia d) Quito e) Buenos Aires
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Which of the following statements is false?
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a. South America’s population remains concentrated in its interior, although many peripheral
locations are growing rapidly. b) Strong cultural pluralism exists in a majority of the
countries in South America. c) In general, the southern portion of South America is the most
developed and the northeastern portion is least developed. d) Brazil alone accounts for
about half the land area of South America .e) Brazil alone accounts for more than half the
population of South America
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The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 stipulated that a north-south boundary was to be drawn
separating the South American territories of ____________________.
a. Spain and France b) France and Britain c) Spain and Portugal d) the Netherlands
and France e) the Incas and the Mayas
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Which of the following is false?
a. The Spanish viceroyalties existed in isolation from one another .b) Only Australia has a
population that is more peripheral than South America’s. c) South America never attracted
as many immigrants as did North America. d) The Spanish invested significantly in their
South American colonies. e) All of the above are true
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Which South American country was most transformed by the forced in-migration of Africans
in bondage?
a. Argentina b) Brazil c) Colombia d) Paraguay e) Ecuador
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Almost ____ percent of South Americans live in urban areas.
a. 20 b) 25 c) 50 d) 60 e) 80
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Which of the following cities is not the largest urban center in its country?
a. Buenos Aires b) Santiago c) Rio de Janeiro d) Montevideo e) Bogotá
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The slums of South America’s large cities are known as:
a. Mestizos b) favelas or barrios c) tierra templada d) altiplanos e) llanos
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Bogota, Colombia’s capital city, is located:
a. on the arid Pacific coast b) on the Caribbean Sea at the outlet of the Magdalena River
c) in an Andean Basin d) at the intersection of three valleys in the eastern savanna zone
near the Chilean border e) in the llanos
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The dominant economic activity in Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo Lowland is:
a. large-scale cattle herding b) tourism c) oil production d) coffee farming e)
cocaine refining
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The largest country in terms of landmass in Latin America is:
a. Venezuela b) Colombia c) Panama d) Brazil e) Ecuador
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The country of Guyana:
a. was formerly a British colony before independence in 1966 b) is also called Suriname
c) contains a population that is three-quarters European d) is the smallest of the four
Guianas in population size e) still belongs to France
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Unlike Peru’s coast, Ecuador’s coastland consists of:
a. desert b) fertile coastal plains c) mountains that reach the sea d) indented bays
with many excellent port facilities e) altiplanos covered by equatorial forest
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A moderating influence on west-central Bolivia’s climate is:
a. Lake Titicaca b) the Atlantic Ocean c) the Pacific Ocean d) Rio de la Plata e)
the Peru Current
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Which of the following countries is landlocked?
a. Uruguay b) Ecuador c) Paraguay d) Peru e) Suriname
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Which of the following countries contains a population whose ethnicity is dominated by
Amerindian ancestry?
a. Argentina b) Brazil c) Bolivia d) Uruguay e) Chile
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Which of the following associations is incorrect?
a. Santiago and Chile b) Montevideo and Paraguay c) La Paz and Bolivia d) Quito
and Ecuador e) Georgetown and Guyana
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Argentina’s dominant city is:
a. Montevideo b) Asunción c) La Paz d) Buenos Aires e) Cordoba
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The leading agricultural activity of the Pampa region is the production of:
a. coffee b) wheat c) sugarcane d) tropical fruits and vegetables e) tobacco
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The best example of an elongated state in South America, and probably the world, is:
a. Peru b) Brazil c) Chile d) Bolivia e) Uruguay
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Chile’s copper deposits are located closest to which of the following areas:
a. Santiago in Middle Chile b) the Atacama Desert c) Tierra del Fuego d) the
Amazon River e) the border with Uruguay
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Which of the following countries has the most compact territorial shape?
a. Chile b) Argentina c) Uruguay d) Panama e) Peru
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The capital of Brazil is:
a. Brasília b) Rio de Janeiro c) São Paulo d) Salvador e) Brazil City
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The Brazilian area that is the world’s leading producer of orange juice concentrate is:
a. Amazonas b) the cerrado c) the Citrus Belt d) the Pampa e) São Paulo State
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Fazendas are:
a. coffee plantations b) a minority group in the Northeast of Brazil c) flat areas in the
Amazon Basin d) Portuguese farmer colonies in the South e) poor neighborhoods in
Brazilian cities
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The Brazilian sub-region with the greatest diversity in its European population is the:
a. South b) Northeast c) Federal District d) cerrado e) Amazonian North
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Rubber production has had the greatest impact on which Brazilian sub-region?
a. the South b) the Northeast c) the Southeast d) the Interior e) the North
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South America’s largest city in population size is:
a. Mexico City b) Sao Paulo c) Buenos Aires d) Rio de Janeiro e) Lima
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The South American country that contains the northern end of the Andes is:
a. Venezuela b) Peru c) Brazil d) Colombia e) Ecuador
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The country in South America which has, by far, the largest oil reserves is:
a. Venezuela b) Chile c) Bolivia d) Colombia e) Argentina
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The UNESCO World Heritage Site Machu Picchu, near Cuzco in Peru, was built by the _____
civilization.
a. Mayan b) Aztec c) Inuit d) Incan e) Navajo
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_____ is the easternmost outpost of the Caribbean North, and is mainland South America’s
only dependency.
a. Guyana b) French Guiana c) Venezuela d) Suriname e) None of the above
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The largest southern core country is _____.
a. Chile b) Uruguay c) Brazil d) Argentina e) Paraguay
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The country in South America with the fastest growing economy since the 1990s is:
a. Paraguay B. Bolivia C. French Guiana D. Ecuador E. Chile
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Mexico’s chief trading partner is:
a. U.S. B. Chile C. Canada D. CubaE. None of the above
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The religion most closely associated with South America is:
a. Islam B. Roman Catholicism C. Incanism D. Cokism E. Coptic Christianity
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Independence came to most South American states around:
a. 1700 B. 1650 C. 1910 D. 1750 E. 1820
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Which of the following is not a Latin Country?
a. Suriname B. Venezuela C. Peru D. Chile E. Argentina
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Nowhere in South America does the population grow faster than:
a. in the rural areas B. in the cities and towns C. in the Amazon Basin D. in the Andean
altiplanos E. in Uruguay
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The fastest growing sector of the Brazilian economy is:
a. commercial agriculture B. industry C. banking D. tourism E. rubber
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Colombia is one of the top 10 world exporter of:
a. bananas B. coffee C. rubber D. tea E. coal
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The second largest producer of shrimp in the world after Vietnam is:
a. Ecuador B. Chile C. Paraguay D. Peru E. Brazil
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South America’s densest railroad network is found in:
a. the Amazon River Basin B. Mexico C. Chile D. Paraguay E. Argentina
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Most of the population is of European stock is in:
a. Guyana B. Brazil C. Uruguay D. Paraguay E. Colombia
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