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48) The number of speakers of Romance and Germanic languages in Europe is roughly equal.
About how many speakers does each group have in Europe?
A) 10 million
B) 20 million
C) 100 million
D) 200 million
E) 1 billion
49) Today, Europe has about ________ million Catholics
A) 20
B) 50
C) 100
D) 150
E) 250
50) Today, Europe has just under ________ million Protestants
A) 20
B) 50
C) 100
D) 150
E) 250
51) In what part of Europe is Protestantism the dominant religion?
A) northern Germany
B) Sweden
C) England
D) Norway
E) All of the answer choices are correct.
52) Which country of Europe has the region's largest numbers of Muslims?
A) Germany
B) England
C) Spain
D) France
E) Italy
53) Europe's new lingua franca is
A) German.
B) French.
C) English.
D) Italian.
E) Portuguese.
54) What non Indo-European language is spoken in Spain?
A) Galician
B) Catalan
C) Breton
D) Basque
E) Gaelic
55) Which of the following languages is NOT Germanic?
A) Basque
B) English
C) Danish
D) Norwegian
E) Swedish
56) What is the most widely spoken Germanic language in Europe?
A) English
B) Swedish
C) Danish
D) Norwegian
E) German
57) According to the graphic below, which of the following are the two language subfamilies
found in the British Isles?
A) Germanic and Slavic
B) Celtic and Germanic
C) Romance and Germanic
D) Celtic and Romance
E) Romance and Slavic
58) The Ottoman Empire expanded its borders almost to the gates of what European city in the
middle of the 16th century?
A) Rome, Italy
B) Paris, France
C) Vienna, Austria
D) Berlin, Germany
E) London, England
59) How many world wars were fought in Europe?
A) none
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3
E) 4
60) What do the letters in NATO stand for?
A) National Anti-Terrorism Organization
B) North Austrian Transportation Organization
C) Norway-Austria Treaty Organization
D) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
E) Netherlands Against Terrorism Organization
61) Which of the Balkan states has the highest percentage of Muslim population?
A) Albania
B) Kosovo
C) Bosnia and Herzegovina
D) Croatia
E) Macedonia
62) The states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were established by
A) the Warsaw Pact.
B) the Treaty of Versailles.
C) the European Union.
D) the United Nations.
E) irredentism.
63) Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia were part of the former
A) Czechoslovakia.
B) USSR.
C) German Empire.
D) Austro-Hungarian Empire.
E) Yugoslavia.
64) What is the word for a state policy of reclaiming lost lands or lands inhabited by people of
the same ethnicity in another state?
A) balkanization
B) collectivism
C) feudalism
D) irredentism
E) privatization
65) Which of the following European countries was a member of the now-defunct Warsaw Pact
alliance?
A) Italy
B) Denmark
C) Spain
D) France
E) Poland
66) From 1945 until 1990, Europe was divided into two geopolitical and economic blocs, east
and west, separated by the infamous
A) armed soldiers.
B) Iron Curtain.
C) Glasnost.
D) KGB.
E) buffer zone.
67) What was the metaphorical name given to the policy of separation that divided Europe into
two separate geopolitical and economic blocs after World War II?
A) Berlin Wall
B) Iron Curtain
C) Kremlin
D) Autobahn
E) buffer zone
68) What is a major reason for the new Cold War between Russia and the Western powers?
A) the expansion of NATO through the addition of former Warsaw Pact nations
B) new trade restrictions on Russian exports
C) the building of new air defense missile sites in Eastern Europe
D) the destruction of oil pipelines from Russia
E) Putin's ties to Russian organized crime
69) Which non-European country signed an agreement to become Germany's military ally and
set the scene for World War II?
A) Japan
B) United States
C) Russia
D) China
E) India
70) Which European country was NOT one of the "Allies" during World War II?
A) France
B) Britain
C) Russia
D) Germany
E) United States
71) What was the Cold War?
A) armed warfare between Eastern Europe and Western Europe from 1968-1973
B) the nickname given to efforts by the cold, northern countries of Europe to resolve their energy
crisis in the 1990s in order to avoid deaths caused by hypothermia
C) an armed conflict between the United States and the USSR that lasted from 1946-1991 and
included occupation of several European countries by the United States
D) an ideological struggle between the United States and the former Soviet Union that lasted
from 1946-1991, and included Soviet occupation of several European countries
E) armed warfare between Eastern Europe and Western Europe that lasted from 1986-1991
72) What is the word for an array of nonaligned or friendly states that cushion or protect a larger
country from invasion, as happened with the former Soviet Union and its Eastern European
neighbors?
A) Balkan region
B) homelands
C) buffer zone
D) convection cells
E) distributaries
73) Of the former Yugoslav republics, only ________ has actually achieved membership in the
EU, although all Balkan countries have begun the lengthy and complex EU membership process.
A) Slovenia
B) Slovakia
C) Czech Republic
D) Bosnia and Hezegovina
E) Serbia
74) The term ________ is used to describe the geopolitical processes of small scale
independence movements based upon ethnic fault lines.
A) irredentism
B) balkanization
C) shatter belt
D) centrifugal forces
E) neutrality turf
75) What is the currency of the European Monetary Union?
A) the euro
B) the franc
C) the Deutschemark
D) the pound
E) the dollar
76) What kind of organization is the European Union?
A) an international organization working toward the improvement of Europe's transportation
network
B) a regional organization working toward the integration of professional athletics in Europe
C) a supranational organization working toward economic, political, and cultural integration in
Europe
D) an international labor union working to retain jobs in the region
E) a supranational organization focusing on the common defense and the development of a
nuclear arsenal
77) Economic cooperation in Western Europe at the end of World War II centered on what
commodity (commodities)?
A) telegraph and telephones
B) transportation
C) textiles
D) computers and information technology
E) coal and steel
78) What EU country experienced a massive debt crisis in 2015?
A) Belgium
B) Portugal
C) Italy
D) Greece
E) United Kingdom
79) What country has Europe's highest long-term unemployment?
A) Belgium
B) Portugal
C) Italy
D) Greece
E) United Kingdom
80) What country has the lowest parliamentary representation by women?
A) Sweden
B) Cyprus
C) Italy
D) Greece
E) Bulgaria
81) When did the Industrial Revolution emerge?
A) from 1258-1492
B) from 1540-1680
C) from 1730-1850
D) from 1870-1920
E) from 1940-1970
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82) Most of Italy's older industrial areas can be found
A) in the inner city of Rome.
B) in the Po River Valley.
C) in the Bari-Brindisi region.
D) on the Adriatic coast.
E) in Sicily.
83) Discuss the characteristics and location of Europe's three major climates.
84) Describe the location and typical characteristics of the four major landform regions of
Europe.
85) Write an essay in which you discuss and analyze the various environmental problems
affecting Europe, including how governments have dealt with these problems.
86) What are the current patterns and problems regarding migration to and within Europe today?
87) Explain how European counties are working to preserve their cultural landscapes.
88) How has the English language spread throughout Europe and how well has it been received
by the various countries to which it has spread?
89) Culture has played an important role in Europe. Write an essay in which you discuss how
and why some countries are taking such lengths to preserve their national cultures, and also
examine whether or not we can speak of a common European culture, and what the
characteristics of that culture might be.
90) Describe and analyze the growth of European economic cooperation from 1950 to the
present.
91) Yugoslavia and its former republics have been a major area of tension and warfare in the
1990s. First discuss the historical, ethnic, linguistic, and religious background of Yugoslavia, and
then examine the conflicts of the 1990s, including the reasons for their occurrence and what has
been done to settle them.
92) List the four factors that create Europe's environmental diversity and explain how each factor
contributes to that diversity.
93) Write an essay that examines the nature and consequences of the economic transition in
Eastern Europe since the 1990s.
94) Describe the evolution of the European Union from 1950 to the present day.
