32) Examples of major nation-states are
A) Germany and Denmark.
B) Australia and New Zealand.
C) Russia and the United States.
D) Mexico and Russia.
E) Mexico and Germany.
33) A territory tied to a state rather than being completely independent is a
A) nation.
B) state.
C) nation-state.
D) colony.
E) patron-state.
34) The attempt by one country to impose political control over another territory is
A) colonialism.
B) constitutionality.
C) self-determination.
D) sovereignty.
E) suffrage.
35) The motives of European states in establishing colonies can be summarized as all but which
of the following?
A) God
B) glory
C) guilt
D) gold
E) power
36) Which of the following is a small British colony in the Pacific Ocean?
A) Hong Kong.
B) Pitcairn.
C) Puerto Rico.
D) San Marino.
E) St. Lucia.
37) The most populous remaining colony is ruled by
A) the United States.
B) the United Kingdom.
C) France.
D) China.
E) the Netherlands.
38) The Commonwealth is primarily
A) an economic and cultural alliance of states once part of the British Empire.
B) an organization of culturally homogenous nations that opposed the Warsaw Pact.
C) organized to increase availability of mineral resources in perforated states that are NATO
allies.
D) a religious entity that sends missionaries to Africa from the United Kingdom.
E) an association of countries that were once members of COMECON and the Warsaw Pact.
39) According to the map of present-day colonial possessions, the U.S. colony located east of the
Philippines is
A) Palmyra.
B) Guam.
C) Jarvis Island.
D) Puerto Rico.
E) the U.S. Virgin Islands.
40) According to the map of present-day colonial possessions, the U.S. colony located west of
the British Virgin Islands is
A) Palmyra.
B) Guam.
C) Jarvis Island.
D) Puerto Rico.
E) the U.S. Virgin Islands.
41) According to the map of present-day colonial possessions, the British colony to the west of
Angola is
A) Anguila.
B) the Falkland Islands.
C) Gibraltar.
D) Saint Helena.
E) the British Virgin Islands.
42) According to the map of present-day colonial possessions, the British colony east of
Argentina is
A) Gibraltar.
B) Saint Helena.
C) the British Virgin Islands.
D) the Falkland Islands.
E) Anguila.
43) According to the map of present-day colonial possessions, the French colony northwest of
the Pitcairn Islands is
A) Aruba.
B) the Cook Islands.
C) Kingman Reef.
D) French Polynesia.
E) Clipperton Island.
44) The only large land mass not part of a sovereign state is
A) Antarctica.
B) the Arctic.
C) Greenland.
D) Siberia.
E) Borneo.
45) A frontier, in contrast to a boundary,
A) separates two states.
B) is an area rather than a line.
C) has become a more common means to separate states.
D) is a region of ethnic conflict.
E) is the westernmost part of a state.
46) A feature of the physical environment commonly used to separate states includes all but
which of the following?
A) deserts
B) geometry
C) mountains
D) lakes
E) rivers
47) The boundary between the United States and Canada is best described by which of the
following?
A) geometric only
B) linguistic and religious
C) water and linguistic
D) mountain and water
E) water and geometric
48) Cultural boundaries include all but which of the following?
A) ethnic
B) geometric
C) religious
D) linguistic
E) geomorphic
49) The conflict over the Aozou Strip involves
A) centripetal forces acting in the absence of any centrifugal forces.
B) a disputed border and Egypt’s claims of sovereignty over the zone.
C) a disagreement regarding suffrage and a disputed border.
D) a disputed border and Libya’s claims of sovereignty over the zone.
E) Aozou attempts to join the United Nations as a sovereign nation-state.
50) As shown on this map, the Aozou Strip
A) is a zone of conflict between Russia and its neighbors in the Caucasus region.
B) exists because of Egypt’s past invasions of the Sinai Peninsula.
C) disappeared when the disputed border between Egypt and Libya was overrun.
D) is a disputed zone that abuts Niger on the west and Sudan on the east.
E) forms an elongated strip of disputed land between Chad and Egypt.
51) As indicated on the maps in this chapter, the shape and size of the Aozou Strip make it an
example of a
A) prorupted boundary.
B) physical boundary.
C) geometric boundary.
D) mathematical frontier.
E) perforated frontier.
52) The boundary between Argentina and Chile is an example of a
A) prorupted boundary.
B) geometric boundary.
C) physical boundary.
D) cultural frontier.
E) perforated frontier.
53) The eastern part of the border between the United States and Mexico is delineated by
A) the Rio Grande.
B) the Gulf of Mexico.
C) the Mojave desert.
D) the Mississippi River.
E) the Rocky Mountains.
54) Extremely small island-states in the world, many of which are former European colonies, are
called
A) island nations.
B) macrostates.
C) microstates.
D) small nation-states.
E) island-colonies.
55) The Germans established the ________ known as the Caprivi Strip in present-day Namibia
to access resources in central Africa, including the Zambezi River.
A) causeway
B) disruption zone
C) railroad
D) protraction
E) proruption
56) As shown on this map, an African country with an elongated shape is
A) Libya.
B) Central African Republic.
C) Algeria.
D) Malawi.
E) Sudan.
57) A Southeast Asian country with a partly elongated or prorupted shape is
A) Pakistan.
B) China.
C) Cambodia.
D) Thailand.
E) Indonesia.
58) A South American country with an elongated shape is
A) Bolivia.
B) Colombia.
C) Brazil.
D) Chile.
E) Ecuador
59) Swaziland makes ________ into a perforated state.
A) Madagascar
B) the United Kingdom
C) Italy
D) South Africa
E) Zimbabwe
60) The most fragmented Southeast Asian state is
A) Brunei.
B) Malaysia.
C) East Timor.
D) Indonesia.
E) Thailand.
61) Elongated states may suffer from poor internal communication and difficulty defending
borders. Which of the following is not an elongated state?
A) Malawi
B) Gambia
C) Namibia
D) Chile
E) Italy
62) As shown on our maps, an example of a perforated state is
A) South Africa.
B) Sudan.
C) Slovenia.
D) Malaysia.
E) Germany.
63) A state with control over its internal affairs has
A) centripetal forces.
B) nationality.
C) suffrage.
D) sovereignty.
E) ethnicity.
64) The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves is known as
A) centripetal determination.
B) nationalism.
C) universal suffrage.
D) self determination.
E) sovereignty.
65) Which shape most easily fosters the establishment of effective internal communications for a
smaller state?
A) compact
B) elongated
C) fragmented
D) prorupted
E) prolonged
66) A state which places most power in the hands of a central government is a(n)
A) federal state.
B) anocratic state.
C) fragmented state.
D) unitary state.
E) compact state.
67) After the fall of communism, Poland
A) adopted a unitary form of government.
B) became a nation-state.
C) delegated more authority to local governments.
D) gave most of its federal power to its ethnic minorities.
E) annexed land from Germany.
68) The European Union has
A) replaced COMECON as the main organization for regional cooperation in Eastern Europe.
B) protected Western Europe from a Soviet invasion and improved Europe’s environmental
protections.
C) promoted economic growth and integration in Western Europe.
D) closed NATO military bases around the Mediterranean Sea in order to save money since the
end of the Cold War.
E) protected Southwestern Asia and North Africa from Muslim incursions.