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Chapter 8 Reading Check
This is NOT A GRADE! This is a formative assessment so that you and I can see how you're doing on the reading on your own. Try not to stress :)
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The world's largest state is....
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Canada
India
China
Russia
Alaska
These two countries are committed to unifying the nation but face disagreement as to which will be the dominant political and economic ideology.
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North & South Korea
Moldova & Romania
North & South Vietnam
Morocco & Sahrawi Repubic
Lesotho & the Republic of South Africa
Examples of major nation-states are
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Germany & Denmark
Australia & New Zealand
Russia & United States
Mexico & Russia
Brazil & United Kingdom
This European country was divided post-World War II into a Democratic Republic and a Federal Republic.
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the United Kingdom
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Germany
Poland
A(n) ________ is a state that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self-determination and self-government.
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multi-linguistic state
multinational state
anocracy
city state
nation state
The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 resulted in five groups of independent states, Russia and all but which of the following?
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Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
Russia's western European states (Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine)
Russia's central European States (Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania)
Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan)
Caucasus states (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia)
Which of the following is NOT true about the Baltic States?
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Lithuanians are largely Roman Catholic.
Latvians are largely Lutheran with a significant minority Roman Catholic.
In all three states, Russian has remained the official language.
Balto-Slavic and Uralic languages are the official languages in these states.
Most Estonians are Protestant.
Which of the following countries has suffered in the twenty-first century from ethnic cleansing?
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Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan
The attempt by one country to impose political control over another territory is
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colonialism
constitutionality
self-determination
sovereignty
suffrage
Cultural boundaries include all BUT which of the following?
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ethnic
geometric
linguistic
religious
geomorphic
What was an important cultural characteristic of boundaries in nineteenth century France, Spain, and Portugal?
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religion
language
economics
mountains
kingdoms
Which is NOT true about the Law of the Sea?
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It identifies territorial waters up to 12 nautical miles as under state control.
It identifies international waters as having no single state control.
It identifies internal shoreline waters as international to ensure free trade.
It identifies the exclusive economic zone as a zone of state exploitation of resources such as fish and oil.
It identifies a contiguous zone in which a state may enforce pollution controls and levy taxes for its use.
Map of Africa
Using the map of Africa above, which country has an elongated shape?
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Libya
Algeria
Central Africa Republic
Malawi
Sudan
Clear selection
Democracies and autocracies differ in three essential ways; they are
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longevity of regime, citizen participation, and adoption of free market economies.
selection of leaders, citizen participation, and checks and balances.
longevity of regime, selection of leaders, and checks and balances.
selection of leaders, adoption of free market economies, checks and balances.
longevity of regime, checks and balances, membership in the United Nations.
Economic and political cooperation in the European Union takes the form of all but which of the following?
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Subsidies are provided to economically depressed areas.
Transfer of finished products between countries is simplified.
With few exceptions, citizens may live in one country but work in another without political difficulty.
Every member country must adopt the Euro currency.
A European Parliament is elected by member states.
Which U.S. state was judged by the Washington Post to have the most gerrymandering?
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South Carolina
North Carolina
North Dakota
South Dakota
West Virginia
When gerrymandering takes place, the kind of redistricting so that the opposition is spread across many districts as a minority is termed a(n) ________ strategy.
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wasted vote
rightwing
stacked vote
districting
excess vote
Which of the following democracies represents a unitary state in which power is concentrated in the hands of the central government?
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India
France
South Africa
Russia
the United States
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