Globalization and Diversity, 5e (Rowntree et al.)
Chapter 8 Europe
1) How many countries make up the European Union (EU)?
A) 5
B) 10
C) 18
D) 27
E) 35
2) What mountain range in Europe is over 500 miles long and has peaks reaching 15,000 feet?
A) Pyrenees
B) Alps
C) Carpathians
D) Himalayas
E) Apennines
3) The northern subregion of Europe is also known as
A) Carpathia.
B) Scandinavia.
C) Mediterranean.
D) Iberia.
E) Catalonia.
4) Which country would NOT be considered a European microstate?
A) Andorra
B) Monaco
C) Slovenia
D) Luxembourg
E) Liechtenstein
5) Which of the following is NOT one of the four seas that encircle Europe?
A) Baltic Sea
B) North Sea
C) Mediterranean Sea
D) Caspian Sea
E) Black Sea
6) What small British territory guards the narrow strait between Africa and Europe?
A) Gibraltar
B) Monaco
C) Andorra
D) Sardinia
E) Crete
7) How many countries does Europe contain?
A) 10
B) 20
C) 30
D) 42
E) 50
8) In Europe, with what type of feature are the names Rhine, Loire, Thames, Danube, and Elbe
associated?
A) Alpine mountain ranges
B) cities
C) small countries
D) rivers
E) ethnic groups
9) How does the environment of Eastern Europe compare to that of Western Europe?
A) The environment in Eastern Europe was much more polluted than that of Western Europe,
until recent efforts to rectify the situation, with the help of the European Union.
B) The environment in Western Europe was much more polluted than that of Eastern Europe,
until recent efforts to rectify the situation, with the help of the European Union.
C) The environment in Eastern Europe is much more polluted than that of Western Europe.
D) The environment in Western Europe is much more polluted than that of Eastern Europe.
E) The environment in Eastern Europe has more air pollution, but less water pollution than that
of Western Europe.
10) Which of the following factors does NOT explain the environmental diversity of Europe?
A) complex geology that produced some of the newest, as well as oldest, landscapes in the world
B) the latitudinal extent of Europe
C) El Niño
D) the interaction of land and sea
E) A long history of human settlement has transformed the land.
11) What European mountain range forms the political border between Spain and France?
A) Pyrenees
B) Alps
C) Carpathians
D) Dinaric Alps
E) Apennines
12) What progress has Europe made toward meeting the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol?
A) It has made no progress at all.
B) It has made relatively little progress.
C) It is half–way towards meeting its goals.
D) It has met its goal.
E) It has exceeded its goal.
13) Which country of Europe is most likely to experience drought?
A) Norway
B) Portugal
C) Germany
D) Austria
E) Bulgaria
14) What country emits the most pollutants each year?
A) France
B) Italy
C) United Kingdom
D) Poland
E) Germany
15) What major step did Europe take to help meet its obligation to the Kyoto Protocol?
A) It moved its polluting factories to Asia.
B) It replaced natural gas consumption with clean-burning coal.
C) It began to financially penalize polluting countries.
D) It undertook the construction of hundreds of new nuclear reactors.
E) It started a carbon-trading scheme.
16) Which country of Europe is primarily located on the European Lowland?
A) Italy
B) Greece
C) Switzerland
D) Netherlands
E) Spain
17) In which European country would you find fjords?
A) Ireland
B) Norway
C) Netherlands
D) Italy
E) Germany
18) Which of the following is NOT a source of Europe’s environmental problems?
A) long history of agriculture
B) a major nuclear accident in 1994
C) extraction of resources
D) industrial manufacturing
E) urbanization
19) What are the current impacts of climate change in Europe?
A) Sea ice is dwindling.
B) There is sparse snow cover in arctic Scandinavia.
C) There are frequent droughts in the water–starved Mediterranean region.
D) A and B above
E) A, B, and C above
20) Which part of Europe is the region’s unquestionable focus of intensive agriculture, large
cities, and major industrial activities?
A) the Alpine mountain region
B) the Central Uplands
C) the Iberian Peninsula
D) the European Lowland
E) the Western Highlands
21) On a per capita basis, what two countries granted asylum to the largest number of migrants
A) Sweden and Norway
B) Germany and France
C) Greece and Italy
D) United Kingdom and Germany
E) Austria and Spain
22) Which country of Europe has the largest population in the region?
A) Germany
B) the United Kingdom
C) France
D) Poland
E) Italy
23) What event has been an important cause of the surge of immigration to European countries
such as Germany since the beginning of the 1990s?
A) the release of the last German colony in Africa in 1989
B) the expulsion of many foreign-born immigrants from France
C) an environmental disaster in the Balkans
D) Germany‘s mild climate
E) the collapse of the Soviet Union
24) Why have many European countries encouraged immigration of foreign populations into
their borders in the recent past?
A) They want to increase the diversity of their ethnic composition.
B) It is a requirement of the European Union.
C) They were experiencing low or negative growth, and needed immigrants to fill gaps in their
labor force.
D) Many feel it would be a way to make up for the transgressions they committed against these
people during World War II.
E) All of the answer choices are correct.
25) “One of narrow, winding streets, crowded with three- or four-story masonry buildings with
little setback from the street.” This describes which of the following?
A) landscapes of contemporary French urban cities
B) the Renaissance-Baroque period
C) contemporary landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula
D) rural landscapes in contemporary Europe
E) the medieval landscape
26) “… more open and spacious, with expansive ceremonial buildings and squares, monuments,
ornamental gardens, and wide boulevards lined with palatial residences.” This describes which of
the following?
A) landscapes of contemporary French urban cities
B) the Renaissance-Baroque period
C) contemporary landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula
D) rural landscapes in contemporary Europe
E) the medieval landscape
27) What three historical eras are represented in European city landscapes?
A) Renaissance–Baroque, industrial, post-modern
B) medieval, Renaissance-Baroque, art deco
C) medieval, Renaissance-Baroque, industrial
D) pre-modern, medieval, modern
E) colonial, industrial, post-modern
28) Which country of Europe has the highest population density?
A) Germany
B) the United Kingdom
C) France
D) the Netherlands
E) Italy
29) Benefits of family-friendly policies include all of the following EXCEPT
A) full–pay maternity leave.
B) fully paid nanny services using immigrant labor.
C) guarantees continued employment.
D) extensive child–care facilities.
E) cash subsidies for having children.
30) What is a main reason new migrant groups to Europe challenge the traditional process of
assimilation into host cultures?
A) They are subjected to a European version of apartheid.
B) Racism is so rampant new immigrants refuse to assimilate.
C) New digital technologies increase their ability to maintain strong ties to their homeland.
D) There is just no need to assimilate anymore.
E) They move from country to country so often there is no time to assimilate.
31) In 1967, what city became the first to enact cultural landscape regulations?
A) Dresden
B) Berlin
C) Paris
D) London
E) Salzburg
32) Immigrant refugees seeking political amnesty mainly come from all of these countries
EXCEPT
A) Syria.
B) Afghanistan.
C) Iraq.
D) Israel.
E) Eritrea.
33) What is the approximate population of Europe?
A) 250 million
B) 530 million
C) 670 million
D) 830 million
E) 1 billion
34) According to the graphic below, which of the following cities is located in the area with the
highest population densities?
A) Belgrade
B) Sarajevo
C) Cologne
D) Nantes
E) Bucharest
35) Germany’s population includes a large number of guest workers (and their descendants) from
which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa?
A) Iran
B) Saudi Arabia
C) Yemen
D) Turkey
E) United Arab Emirates
36) Where do most immigrants to France come from?
A) Eastern Europe
B) France‘s former colonies in Africa
C) India and Pakistan
D) Hong Kong
E) Quebec, Canada
37) One of the major characteristics of Europe’s population and settlement patterns is its high
level of
A) urbanization.
B) crime.
C) drug use.
D) corruption.
E) integration.
38) According to the graphic below, which of the following countries of Europe has the highest
population density?
A) Germany
B) France
C) Italy
D) Netherlands
E) Spain
39) Probably the most striking characteristic of Europe’s demography is
A) that almost 40% of the population is illiterate.
B) that there continues to be 10% more women than men in most of the countries.
C) the high rural population.
D) youthfulness of its population.
E) the lack of natural growth.
40) What countries of Europe comprise the region of Scandinavia?
A) Norway, Sweden, Denmark
B) Switzerland and Austria
C) Germany and France
D) Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium
E) Spain and Portugal
41) Why did the population of Jews in Europe drop from 9.5 million before World War II to less
than 2 million today?
A) A drought led to famine in the regions where they were living, killing many and causing
many more to emigrate.
B) The creation of Israel caused most Jews to emigrate from Europe to the Middle East.
C) An outbreak of smallpox during World War II in the region where most European Jews lived
killed many of them.
D) German Nazis murdered approximately 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
E) all of the above
42) Besides the division between western and eastern churches, the other great split within
Christianity occurred between
A) Catholicism and Protestantism.
B) Orthodox Christians and New Age Christians.
C) Methodists and Anglicans.
D) Charismatic Churches and Traditional Churches.
E) none of the above
43) Where is the Jewish Pale?
A) small cities bordering the Mediterranean
B) along the Black Sea
C) the Balkans
D) Eastern Europe
E) Iberia
44) What has been an important source of conflict in Northern Ireland?
A) The Protestant minority feel that the Catholic majority has discriminated against them.
B) The Catholic minority feel that the Protestant majority has discriminated against them.
C) The northern Irish want all of the road signs and other public documents printed in their
native Celtic language.
D) There is a large influx of foreign immigration every year.
E) There is a proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage.
45) In which country of Europe has conflict between Catholics and Protestants been a problem?
A) Northern Ireland
B) England
C) Scotland
D) Wales
E) Ireland
46) Which European Romance language contains many Slavic words?
A) Romanian
B) French
C) Spanish
D) Italian
E) Portuguese
47) As their first language, 90% of Europe’s population speak languages from what three groups?
A) Romance, Slavic, Hellenic
B) Germanic, Hellenic, Basque
C) Romance, Magyar, Celtic
D) Romance, Hellenic, Celtic
E) Germanic, Romance, Slavic