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Semester Test - Social Studies - Hard

Total questions: 88

Worksheet time: 2hrs 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the capital of Alabama?

a)

Montgomery

b)

Phoenix

c)

Tulsa

d)

Pierre

2.
What is the capital of Alaska?
a)
Phoenix
b)
Boston
c)
Juneau
d)
Topeka
3.
What is the capital of Arizona?
a)
Baton Rouge
b)
Phoenix
c)
Boise
d)
Trenton
4.
What is the capital of Arkansas?
a)
Lincoln
b)
Augusta
c)
Tulsa
d)
Little Rock
5.
What is the capital of California?
a)

Sacramento

b)

St. Paul

c)

Augusta

d)

Maine

6.
What is the capital of Colorado?
a)
Dover
b)
Denver
c)
Delaware
d)
Des Moines
7.
What is the capital of Connecticut?
a)
Hartford
b)
Delaware
c)
Carson City
d)
Concord
8.
What is the capital of Wisconsin?
a)
Lansing
b)
Madison
c)
Michigan
d)
Boise
9.

What is the capital of Delaware?

a)

Atlanta

b)

Dover

c)

Bismarck

d)

Albany

10.
What is the capital of Florida?
a)
Richmond
b)
Salem
c)
Tallahassee
d)
Tacoma
11.
What is the capital of Georgia?
a)
Austin
b)
Salt Lake City
c)
Salem
d)
Atlanta
12.
What is the capital of North Dakota?
a)
New Jersey
b)
Boise
c)
Bismark
d)
Baton Rouge
13.
What is the capital of South Dakota?
a)
Atlanta
b)
Pierre
c)
Augusta
d)
Bismark
14.
What is the capital of Wyoming?
a)
Bismark
b)
Cheyenne
c)
Tulsa
d)
Phoenix
15.
What is the capital of New York?
a)

Phoenix

b)

Trenton

c)

Albany

d)

Augusta

16.
What is the capital of New Jersey?
a)
Salem
b)
Trenton
c)
Olympia
d)
Madison
17.
What is the capital of Texas?
a)
Austin
b)
Albany
c)
Augusta
d)
Alabama
18.
What is the capital of Oregon?
a)
Concord
b)
Salem
c)
Lansing
d)
Portland
19.
What is the capital of Utah?
a)
Salt Lake City
b)
Nashville
c)
Madison
d)
Hartford
20.
What is the capital of Virginia?
a)
Providence
b)
Raliegh
c)
Nashville
d)
Richmond
21.
What is the capital of Rhode Island?
a)
Charleston
b)
Providence
c)
Harrisburg
d)
Austin
22.
What is the capital of Mississippi?
a)
Jackson
b)
Helena
c)
Albany
d)
Madison
23.
What is the capital of Minnesota?
a)

Helena

b)

Lincoln

c)

St. Paul

d)

Salem

24.
What is the capital of Michigan?
a)
Bismark
b)
Nashville
c)
Albany
d)
Lansing
25.
What is the capital of New Hampshire?
a)

Concord

b)

Topeka

c)

Delaware

d)

St. Paul

26.
What is the capital of Hawaii?
a)
Jefferson City
b)
Honolulu
c)
Lincoln
d)
Helena
27.
What is the capital of Vermont?
a)
Michigan
b)
Minnesota
c)
Montgomery
d)
Montpelier
28.
What is the capital of Kentucky?
a)
Austin
b)
Maine
c)
Frankfurt
d)
Nashville
29.
What is the capital of Washington?
a)
Orlando
b)
Olympia
c)
Oregon
d)
Dover
30.
What is the capital of Louisiana
a)
Baton Rouge
b)
Boise
c)
Carson City
d)
Ohio
31.
What is the capital of Ohio?
a)
Phoenix
b)
Juneau
c)
Salem
d)
Columbus
32.
What is the capital of West Virginia?
a)

Frankfort

b)

Charleston

c)

Topeka

d)

Nashville

33.
What is the capital of Tennessee?
a)
Nashville
b)
Portland
c)
Sacramento
d)
Olympia
34.
What is the capital of South Carolina?
a)
Helena
b)
Columbia
c)
Topeka
d)
Sacramento
35.
What is the capital of Oklahoma?
a)
Topeka
b)
Salem
c)
Oklahoma City
d)
Oregon
36.
What is the capital of New Mexico?
a)

Dover

b)

Sacramento

c)

Salem

d)

Santa Fe

37.
What is the capital of Nevada?
a)
Boise
b)
Carson City
c)
Topeka
d)
Denver
38.
What is the capital of Nebraska?
a)
Boise
b)
Lincoln
c)
Lansing
d)
Denver
39.
What is the capital of Montana?
a)
Hartford
b)
Des Moines
c)
Helena
d)
Topeka
40.

What is the capital of Massachusetts?

a)

Orlando

b)

Baton Rouge

c)

Boston

d)

Lansing

41.
What is the capital of Missouri? 
a)
Augusta
b)
Jackson
c)
Jefferson City
d)
Pierre
42.
What is the capital of Maryland?
a)
Annapolis
b)
Augusta
c)
Austin
d)
Atlanta
43.
What is the capital of Maine?
a)
Salem
b)
Augusta
c)
Annapolis
d)
Topeka
44.
What is the capital of Kansas?
a)
Bismark
b)
Maine
c)
Topeka
d)
Texas
45.
What is the capital of Iowa?
a)
Des Moines
b)
Austin
c)
Delaware
d)
Albany
46.
What is the capital of Indiana?
a)

Atlanta

b)

Indianapolis

c)

Springfield

d)

Vermont

47.
What is the capital of Illinois?
a)
Saratoga
b)
Salem
c)
Santa Fe
d)
Springfield
48.
What is the capital of Pennsylvania?
a)
Lansing
b)
Harrisburg
c)
Boise
d)
Hartford
49.
What is the capital of Idaho?
a)
Des Moines
b)
Boise
c)
Austin
d)
Bismark
50.
What is the capital of North Carolina?
a)

Phoenix

b)

Rhode Island

c)

Raleigh

d)

Santa Fe

51.

What is the name for a system of government that is run by the people?

a)

Democracy

b)

Monarchy

c)

Oligarchy

d)

Dictatorship

52.

What is the name for a system of government that is lead by a single party which is authoritarian in its rule but has a classless society?

a)

Socialism

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Aristocracy

d)

Communism

53.

What is the name for a system of government that everyone works together instead of competing and donates to others based on ability?

a)

Colonialism

b)

Socialism

c)

Theocracy

d)

Military Dictatorship

54.

What is the name for a system of government that has an absence of individual rights and uses a specific set of qualities to give a small group of people power?

a)

Socialism

b)

Monarchy

c)

Oligarchy

d)

Totalitarianism

55.

What is the name for a system of government that in which a small class of citizens - aristocrats - rule over those in a lower economy class?

a)

Aristocracy

b)

Democracy

c)

Socialism

d)

Totalitarianism

56.

What is the name for a system of government that has one person rule over citizens, usually being a descendant from a royal blood line?

a)

Theocracy

b)

Monarchy

c)

Colonialism

d)

Communism

57.

What is the name for a system of government that religion dominates the laws, leadership and customs in said government?

a)

Democracy

b)

Colonialism

c)

Theocracy

d)

Monarchy

58.

What is the name for a system of government that the nation expands authority over its boarders, usually exploiting resources and indigenous populations while doing so?

a)

Military Dictatorship

b)

Totalitarianism

c)

Monarchy

d)

Colonialism

59.

What is the name for a system of government that is an authoritarian form but has no recognition of limitations on its power?

a)

Totalitarianism

b)

Military Dictatorship

c)

Theocracy

d)

Colonialism

60.

What is the name for a system of government that has one ruler with all the power and no democratic procedure?

a)

Aristocracy

b)

Military Dictatorship

c)

Socialism

d)

Dictatorship

61.

What imaginary line of latitude circles the middle of the Earth?

a)

Line of Longitude

b)

Line of Latitude

c)

Equator

d)

Continental Divide

62.

What imaginary line in the middle of the United States divides it into Eastern and Western?

a)

Equator

b)

Line of Latitude

c)

Line of Longitude

d)

Continental Divide

63.

What are the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution called?

a)

Bill of Rights

b)

The Constitution

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

Institution of Bills

64.

What was the document that declared the United States independence from Great Britain?

a)

Bill of Rights

b)

The Constitution

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

Institution of Bills

65.

What is the document that built the fundamental building blocks of the United States?

a)

Institution of Bills

b)

Constitution

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

Bill of Rights

66.

What did the American colonists dislike most about the rule of the British government?

a)

Taxes and laws

b)

Taxes and government

c)

Laws and tea

d)

Laws and procedure

67.

What was the revolution in Great Britain that showed the British government officials the opinion of their new enforced taxes?

a)

The Patriotic Defiance

b)

Boston Tea Party

c)

Boston Tea Massacre

d)

The Britain Boycott

68.

What chain of mountains are located on the western side of the Mississippi?

a)

Everest Mountains

b)

Rocky Mountains

c)

Appalachian Mountains

d)

Baldy Mountains

69.

What chain of mountains are located on the eastern side of the Mississippi?

a)

Everest Mountains

b)

Rocky Mountains

c)

Appalachian Mountains

d)

Baldy Mountains

70.

What belief helped promote westward expansion?

a)

The Industrial Belief

b)

The Gold Rush

c)

Political Era

d)

The Manifest Destiny

71.

What was a negative effect of the Manifest Destiny?

a)

Native Americans were forced out of their homes and onto reserves

b)

Disease from wild animals spread to colonists

c)

Heavy pollution fogged into the air from mass colonialization and caused global warming

d)

None of the above

72.

In which provinces do most Canadians live?

a)

Quebec and Ontario

b)

Nunavut and Yukon

c)

Manitoba and Alberta

d)

British Columbia and Newfoundland

73.

Which of the following is the world's most important waterway?

a)

St. Lawrence Seaway

b)

Chesapeake Bay

c)

Panama Canal

d)

Mississippi River

74.

What two arms of the Atlantic Ocean border Mexico and Central America on the east?

a)

The Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway

b)

Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea

c)

The Caribbean Sea and the St. Lawrence Seaway

d)

Gulf of Mexico and the St. Lawrence Seaway

75.

What ocean borders Mexico in the west?

a)

Pacific Ocean

b)

Arctic Ocean

c)

Atlantic Ocean

d)

Indian Ocean

76.

What U.S. river divides the state into two main regions?

a)

Mississippi River

b)

Delaware River

c)

Ohio River

d)

Columbia River

77.

Canada's Queen and King are the same as the Bahamas.

a)

True

b)

False

78.

Canada's Queen and King are the same as the United Kingdom's.

a)

True

b)

False

79.

Canada has three provinces and ten territories.

a)

False

b)

True

80.

Canada has ten provinces and three territories.

a)

False

b)

True

81.

Haiti ranks among the world's wealthiest countries.

a)

True

b)

False

82.

Haiti ranks among the world's poorest countries.

a)

True

b)

False

83.

The U.S. government has three branches: Legislative, Executive and Judicial.

a)

False

b)

True

84.

The U.S. government has three branches: Legislative, Executive and Jesturing.

a)

False

b)

True

85.

Geographers look at how people, products, ideas, and information move from one place to another.

a)

True

b)

False

86.

Geographers look at how Earth expands and thrives with humanity's constant obstacles and how to map it.

a)

True

b)

False

87.

The Appalachian Mountain system stretches from Alabama to Canada.

a)

False

b)

True

88.

The Appalachian Mountain system stretches from Alabama to Colorado.

a)

False

b)

True