Unit 7: political Quiz
Chapter 8
1. An area organized into an independent political unit is a
a. Colony
b. Nation
c. Satellite
d. State
e. Suburb
2. After the Roman Empire fell, the European portion was fragmented into a large number of estates owned by
a. Rejuvenated city states.
b. Macedonian city states.
c. Asian conquerors.
d. Warring factions of Balkan tribes.
e. Kings, dukes, barons, and other noblemen.
3. Nation states exist because
a. Ethnicities want to govern themselves.
b. Too many small states were too difficult to govern.
c. The Soviet Union proved to be a reliable model for uniting ethnicities.
d. Nations’ laws are easier to uniformly enforce.
e. Old boundaries emerged as the best borders for governing.
4. Today, the world’s largest multinational state is
a. China
b. Russia
c. Poland
d. Texas
e. India
5. What does it mean for a state to have sovereignty?
a. It is recognized by other governments.
b. Is has an established government.
c. It controls its internal affairs without interference by other states.
d. It is ruled by a king or queen.
6. Gambia is an example of
a. A city-state.
b. An isolated state.
c. A fragmented state.
d. An elongated state.
e. A prorupted state.
7. A perforated state
a. Has no seaports.
b. Requires a long bridge of land to access its most remote territory.
c. Completely surrounds another state.
d. Extends from one coast to another.
e. None of the above.
8. Physical boundaries are effective because they
a. Can be drawn as straight lines on a map.
b. Are clearly delineated on a map and on the ground.
c. Confine ethnicities to their own territory.
d. Are good places to launch an attack.
e. Will continue to exist in their present form.
9. The regime type of most western Asian governments is
a. Autocratic
b. Democratic
c. Demogogic
d. Anocratic
e. Chaotic
10. The only large land mass not part of a sovereign state is/are
a. The North and South Polar regions
b. Greenland
c. Siberia
d. Borneo
11. A country that is not fully democratic but also not fully autocratic is described as a(n)
a. Dictatorship
b. Anocracy
c. Totalitarian
d. Socialist group
12. Terrorism differs from conventional warfare in that
a. Its modus operandi is the systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce
a government into granting its demands.
b. Terrorism is more hierarchically structured.
c. Terrorism seldom involves a religious component.
d. Terrorists can fund only conventional, and usually secondhand, weapons.
e. All of the above