Marmaray Tunnel Questions (Tunnel to Turkey)

What is Turkey called?

• A bridge between Europe and Asia

• A bird you eat on Thanksgiving

• The land of the Turks

• A really large city

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Who joined Turkey's Prime Minister and Turkey's President to inaugurate a new rail system?

• People from all over the world

• The Japanese Prime Minister

• The President of the United States

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Why was the Prime Minister of Japan at the ceremony for the new railway system?

• He was curious to see this new invention

• Japan helped build the new railway system

• There were leaders from all over the world at the ceremony

• The Japanese Prime Minister was invited to sing

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Why is the railway system called "Marmaray"?

• The Turkish people love Marmalade jelly

• The system is a mix of the "Sea of Marmara" and "ray" the Turkish word for rail

• The inventor of the railway system's last name was Marmaray, so they named it after him

• Marmaray is the name of the largest neighborhood in Turkey's capitol, Istanbul

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Why do the two articles talk about the railway system being a plan over 150 years/over a century old?

• The project was so big and expensive, it took 150 years to build.

• The project was first imagined by the emperor of the Ottoman Empire, which used to be where Turkey is today.

• The project was started 200 years ago but failed.

• The Byzantine Empire build the underwater railway a century ago, but they just started using it recently.

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According to the first article, why did the project have a four year delay?

• The project ran out of money and it was delayed waiting for investors

• The project was vandalized and it took a few years to repair the damage

• An earthquake shook the area, causing a few year delay

• The construction crew discovered over 40,000 artifacts

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The underwater railway system opened up on what special day?

• The 90th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic

• The Turkish Prime Minister's birthday

• The anniversary of a tragic construction accident on one of the city's three bridges

• The anniversary of when the Ottoman Empire took over the Byzantine Empire

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Select all of the additional projects the Prime Minister and Transportation Minister of Turkey plan to build now that the railway is open?

• A third bridge to cross over the Bosporus Strait

• A third airport that will be the biggest in the world

• A canal that will bypass the Bosporus Strait

• Join the Marmaray railway system with Western European and Chinese railway systems to connect full continent transportation

What prompted massive protests across Istanbul, the capital city of Turkey?

• Citizens are afraid of driving under the water to travel

• Turkish citizens are upset that the government is plunging ahead with plans without sufficient public consultation.

• Turkish citizens do not like that the Japanese government helped build the railway system

• The Turkish citizens have a religious objection to the tunnel because they are Muslim

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Select all the problems the Turkish government is hoping to solve with the Marmaray railway system:

• They hope it will solve Turkey's transportation issues and help 1.5 million citizens per day.

• They hope the tunnel will provide a direct and reliable commuter rail, meaning people can use it to get to work faster.

• They hope the tunnel will improve Istanbul's air quality by reducing the pollution that results from exhaust gases

• They hope the tunnel will prevent earthquakes, which is why they built it over a fault line.

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