Europe Review Packet
Country Location
Directions: Know the location of the following countries, label them on this map as a reference.
Austria
Germany
Lithuania
Serbia
Belarus
Greece
Netherlands
Spain
Croatia
Ireland
Poland
Sweden
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Finland
Italy
Romania
Ukraine
France
Latvia
Russia
United Kingdom
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. What is the capital city of the United Kingdom?
a. London
c. Berlin
b. Paris
d. Rome
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2. What is the capital city of France?
a. London
b. Paris
c. Berlin
d. Rome
3. What is the capital city of the Germany?
a. London
b. Paris
c. Berlin
d. Rome
4. What is the capital city of the Italy?
a. London
b. Paris
c. Berlin
d. Rome
5. What is the capital city of the Russia?
a. Kiev
b. Warsaw
c. Berlin
d. Moscow
6. What is the capital city of the Ukraine?
a. Kiev
b. Warsaw
c. Berlin
d. Moscow
7. What is the capital city of the Poland?
a. Kiev
b. Warsaw
c. Berlin
d. Moscow
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8. Which of the following countries does not use the Euro as its currency?
a. United Kingdom
c. Germany
b. France
d. Italy
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9. What is the name of Lithuania’s currency?
a. Litas
b. Euro
c. Lat
d. Kroon
____ 10. What is the name of Latvia’s currency?
a. Litas
b. Euro
c. Lat
d. Kroon
____ 11. What is the name of Estonia currency?
a. Litas
b. Euro
c. Lat
d. Kroon
____ 12. What is the name of Russia’s currency?
a. Ruble
b. Euro
c. Zloty
d. Kroon
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____ 13. What is the name of Poland’s currency?
a. Ruble
b. Euro
c. Zloty
d. Kroon
____ 14. What is the name of France’s currency?
a. Ruble
b. Euro
c. Zloty
d. Kroon
____ 15. Which of the following countries does not have Roman Catholic as a primary religion?
a. Belgium
c. Albania
b. Croatia
d. Czech Republic
____ 16. Which of the following countries does not have Roman Catholic as a primary religion?
a. France
c. Finland
b. Italy
d. Spain
____ 17. Which of the following countries does not have Roman Catholic as a primary religion?
a. Hungary
c. Russia
b. Luxembourg
d. Poland
____ 18. More than half of Europe is covered by a landform called the
a. Central Uplands.
b. Alpine Mountain System.
c. North European Plain.
d. Northwestern Highlands.
____ 19. The North Atlantic Current affects northwestern Europe by
a. carrying cold water and ice.
b. bringing stormy weather and snow.
c. bringing warm water and winds.
d. carrying snow and ice.
____ 20. Which statement best compares the size of Europe with Russia?
a. They are approximately the same size.
b. Europe is a small continent and Russia is the largest country in the world.
c. Both Europe and Russia are large continents.
d. Russia is a medium-sized continent and Europe is a small country.
____ 21. Which landform is shared by both Europe and Russia?
a. the Alpine Mountain System
b. the Central Uplands
c. the North European Plain
d. the West Siberian Plain
____ 22. Northwestern Europe receives warm water from the Gulf of Mexico that is carried by the
a. Pacific Ocean.
b. North Atlantic Current.
c. South Atlantic Current.
d. Volga River.
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____ 23. What happened when Czechoslovakia divided in 1993?
a. Many ethnic communities fought each other.
b. Two new countries were peacefully formed.
c. The Magyars gained most of the land.
d. One part of the country joined Russia.
____ 24. What is one important way in which Russians are reconnecting with their past?
a. by forming separate countries
b. by learning to read and write
c. by practicing their religion
d. by learning about Western culture
____ 25. How has the European Union made the movement of goods, ideas, and people easier?
a. by increasing taxes
b. by increasing the amount of imports
c. by opening borders between member nations
d. by ending taxes
____ 26. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, some non-Russian ethnic groups wanted to form
a. their own religion.
b. separate countries.
c. a permanent union with Russia.
d. an alliance with Eastern Europe.
____ 27. How were fjords created in Northern Europe?
a. dynamite
c. glaciers
b. rivers
d. volcanoes
____ 28. What type of energy is abundant in Iceland?
a. petroleum
b. wind energy
c. geothermal energy
d. solar energy
____ 29. Even though it lies at much higher latitude than Michigan, what keeps the temperature in the United Kingdom
relatively warm and mild?
a. volcanoes
c. the North Atlantic Drift or Current
b. dry winds from the Sahara
d. warm winds from the north pole
____ 30. A type of government where a king or queen serves as head of state, but a legislature makes the laws is called
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a. dictatorship
c. communist monarchy
b. democratic republic
d. constitutional monarchy
____ 31. Along with the United Kingdom, which other country makes up the British Isles?
a. Norway
c. Ireland
b. Iceland
d. Netherlands
____ 32. Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and England together form which country?
a. Republic of Ireland
c. Soviet Union
b. the United Kingdom
d. European Union
____ 33. Catholics and Protestants have had conflict even to this day in which Western European country?
a. Estonia
c. Northern Ireland
b. Greece
d. Italy
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____ 34. Scandinavian warriors who raided Europe in the Middle Ages were called
a. Romans
c. knights
b. Spartans
d. Vikings
____ 35. Greenland is a self ruling territory, but still part of which Northern European country?
a. United Kingdom
c. Denmark
b. Norway
d. Iceland
____ 36. Which Northern European city has chosen to be neutral in all military conflicts for about 200 years?
a. United Kingdom
c. Sweden
b. Denmark
d. Ireland
____ 37. Which body of water separates the United Kingdom from France?
a. North Sea
c. Mediterranean Sea
b. Baltic Sea
d. English Channel
____ 38. Two important rivers in West-Central Europe are the Danube River and the
a. Thames River
c. Rhine River
b. Sien River
d. Volga River
____ 39. When a river is deep and wide enough for ships to use it is considered
a. a lake
c. polluted
b. navigable
d. a rapids
____ 40. The Alps are an important resource for West-Central Europe because they
a. contain petroleum
c. block cold air
b. attract tourists
d. provide good farm land
____ 41. What event took place in France in 1789?
a. the fall of the Berlin Wall
b. nuclear disaster at Chyrnoble
c. French Revolution
d. World War II started
____ 42. Who took power in France during the French Revolution?
a. Adolf Hitler
c. Napoleon Bonaparte
b. Julius Caesar
d. Winston Churchill
____ 43. Who eventually defeated Napoleon during his first reign as emperor of France?
a. the British
c. the Russians
b. the Prussians (Germans)
d. the Russian winter
____ 44. Which of the following is not one of the Benelux countries?
a. Belgium
c. Luxembourg
b. Netherlands
d. Austria
____ 45. How many World Wars did Germany lose in the 1900s?
a. 1
c. 3
b. 2
d. 4
____ 46. How was Germany divided after World War II?
a. into North and South
c. into East and West
b. along ethnic lines
d. into small kingdoms
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____ 47. What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?
a. to keep Wester Berliners from attacking
East Berlin
b. to provide privacy for East Berlin
____ 48. What type of leader governs Germany today?
a. a president
b. a king
c. to keep East Berliners from defecting to
West Berlin
d. to keep West Beliners from defecting to
East Berlin
c. a prime minister
d. a chancellor
____ 49. Which of the following is not one of the three peninsulas of Southern Europe?
a. Scandinavian Peninsula
c. Italian Peninsula
b. Iberian Peninsula
d. Balkan Peninsula
____ 50. Which mountain range separates Spain and France?
a. Alps
c. Pyrenees
b. Carpathian
d. Urals
____ 51. Warm sunny days in summer, and mild rainy winters are characteristics of what climate found in most of
Southern Europe?
a. Humid Continental
c. Arctic
b. Mediterranean
d. Savannah
____ 52. Which Southern European country has been called the birthplace of Western Civilization?
a. Italy
c. United Kingdom
b. Greece
d. Russia
____ 53. To what church do most people in Greece belong to?
a. Roman Catholic
c. Orthodox
b. Lutheran
d. Methodist
____ 54. What is the cornerstone of Greek society?
a. Windex
b. Family
c. Sports
d. Baklava
____ 55. Ancient Rome was centered in what Southern European Country?
a. Spain
c. Italy
b. Portugal
d. Greece
____ 56. Whose support of arts helped lead to the Renaissance period in Europe?
a. Alexander the Great
c. Italian Merchants
b. Julius Caesar
d. Napoleon Bonaparte
____ 57. Italian culture has had a strong influence on the following areas except
a. painting
c. fashion
b. film
d. martial arts
____ 58. Which area of Italy has a strong industrial economy?
a. Northern Italy
c. Sicily
b. Southern Italy
d. Central Italy
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____ 59. After the fall of Rome, Iberia, the area that is now Spain and Portugal, was conquered by which group of
Muslims from North Africa?
a. Turks
c. British
b. Moors
d. Phoenicians
____ 60. Today, the people of Spain and Portugal are predominantly what religion?
a. Protestant
c. Orthodox
b. Roman Catholic
d. Lutheran
____ 61. Besides Madrid, what city in Spain is a center of tourism and industry?
a. Barcelona
c. Paris
b. Lisbon
d. London
____ 62. What Peninsual makes up much of Eastern Europe?
a. Scandinavian
c. Italian
b. Iberian
d. Balkan
____ 63. Heavy use of the Danube River in Eastern Europe has caused it to become
a. shallow
c. faster
b. polluted
d. colder
____ 64. The Balkan Peninsula of Eastern Europe mostly has what type of climate?
a. Humid Continental
c. Mediterranean
b. Desert
d. Savannah
____ 65. Why is the vegetation in the Balkan region of Eastern Europe different from vegetation found in the rest of
Europe?
a. it has tropical rain forests
c. it receives a lot more rainfall
b. it receives little rainfall
d. it is a desert
____ 66. What Russian mountain range forms the traditional border between Europe and Asia?
a. Alps
c. Ural Mountains
b. Caucasus Mountains
d. Dinaric Alps
____ 67. The Kamchatka Peninsula and its surrounding islands in Russia, are part of this area of the Pacific known for
its earthquakes and active volcanoes.
a. Polynesia
c. Alaska
b. Ring of Fire
d. Hawaii
____ 68. What is the longest river in Europe?
a. Danube
b. Thames
c. Sien
d. Volga
____ 69. What type of writing is a form of the Greek alphabet that is still used by the Russians today?
a. Orthodox
c. Greekanese
b. Cyrillic
d. Helvetica
____ 70. What were Russian emperors knows as
a. kings
b. czars
c. gulags
d. chancellors
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____ 71. The Bolsheviks were a group who seized control of Russia from the Czar in 1917, and formed the new
communist organization?
a. North Korea
c. Soviet Union
b. China
d. United Nations
____ 72. The period of tense rivalry and arms (weapons) race between the United States and the Soviet Union was
called
a. World War I
c. the Cold War
b. the Bolshevik Revolution
d. World War II
____ 73. The Russian city of St. Petersburg was founded by
a. Catherine the Great
c. Ivan the Terrible
b. Peter the Great
d. Sicilia the Awesome
____ 74. Russia has been changing from communism to democracy since what year?
a. 1945
c. 1979
b. 1991
d. 2001
____ 75. Which of the following areas of Russia is not considered part of its “heartland”?
a. Moscow
c. St. Petersburg
b. Siberia
d. Volga
____ 76. The Trans-Siberian Railroad has the distinction of being the
a. most highly elevated rail line int he world c. coldest rail line in the world
b. slowest rail line in the world
d. longest rail line in the world
____ 77. There is conflict in which Russian republic, where some people desire independance?
a. Kamchatka
c. Chechnya
b. Siberia
d. Volga
____ 78. What sweet food was first invented in Switzerland?
a. Laffy Taffy
c. chocolate
b. pudding
d. frosting
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