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FINAL TEST SOCIAL STUDIES

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a complex society with organized communities and governments?

a)

government

b)

civilization

c)

tribunal

2.

This civilization is located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

a)

Old Kingdom Egyptian civilization

b)

Harappan civilization

c)

Sumerian civilization (Mesopotamia)

3.

This civilization is located along the Indus River.

a)

Sumerian civilization (Mesopotamia)

b)

Harappan civilization

c)

Shang Dynasty civilization

4.

This civilization is located along the Yellow River.

a)

Old Kingdom Egyptian civilization

b)

Harappan civilization

c)

Shang Dynasty civilization

5.

This civilization used long ditches to bring water from the rivers to the dry regions.

a)

Shang Dynasty civilization

b)

Harappan civilization

c)

Sumerian civilization (Mesopotamia)

6.

Which seas touch China?

a)

Yellow Sea

b)

East China Sea

c)

South China Sea

d)

North China Sea

7.
Feudalism is a system in which land is exchanged for ...
a)
Trade goods
b)
Money
c)
Services
d)
Snacks
8.
The two inventions the Zhou made to make better soldiers were...
a)
spears & swords
b)
Fireworks & cannons
c)
bows & arrows
d)
saddle & stirrups
9.

The last 200 years of the Zhou Dynasty is know as the...

a)

Period of Warring States

b)

The Revolutionary War

c)

The Emperors Rebelion

d)

Period of Warring Snakes

10.
What dynasty had the first Emperor of China by uniting the warring kingdoms?
a)
Shang
b)
Qin
c)
Zhou
d)
Han
11.

How did the Neolithic Revolution change how humans lived?

a)

No more hunting animals.

b)

They started to worship many gods.

c)

They began to farm and raise animals.

d)

People began to migrate to North America.

12.

Even after humans learned to grow crops, they still hunted animals.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Growing crops and producing a surplus led to smaller populations.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

a state with a supreme ruler consisting of a city that functions independently

a)

stele

b)

city-state

c)

Babylonia

d)

society

15.

an ancient region in West Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; now part of Iraq

a)

city-state

b)

Babylonia

c)

Mesopotamia

d)

society

16.
What were pyramids?
a)

a place to store food surplus

b)
prisons
c)
tombs for pharaohs
d)
tombs for nobles
17.
What is Egyptian writing called?
a)
cuneiform
b)
hieroglyphic
c)
characters
d)
Sanskrit
18.
A foreign soldier who serves only for pay and has no loyalty to Rome
a)
dictator
b)
patrician
c)
mercenary
d)
plebian
19.
An ordinary citizen in the ancient Roman Republic
a)
patrician
b)
plebian
c)
counsul
d)
mercenary
20.
A person elected to rule the Roman Republic for a short period in time of emergency
a)
emperor
b)
king
c)
counsul
d)
dictator
21.

How long do house members serve?

a)

2 years

b)

4 years

c)

6 years

d)

For life

22.

How long do Supreme Court Justices serve?

a)

2 years

b)

4 years

c)

6 years

d)

For life

23.

Who can propose new taxes?

a)

The Senate

b)

Congress

c)

The President

d)

The House of Representatives

24.

What does Tranquility mean?

a)

Articles of Confederation

b)

Home safety

c)

Peace and Order

d)

Chaos

25.

How does the Preamble start?

a)

For life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

b)

In order to form

c)

We the people

d)

The people of the United States

26.

Antebellum means....

a)

before the war, referring to the Civil War

b)

after the war, referring to the Civil War

c)

before the war, referring to the War of 1812

d)

after the war, referring to the War of 1812

27.

Why did voters in North Louisiana want to move the capital away from New Orleans?

a)

they saw it as a Creole capital that had too much influence over state politics and wanted to reduce the city's power

b)

they wanted to have multi cities running the state politics

c)

to get away from the crime

d)

the slave population was larger in the northern areas of the state and they needed less politics

28.

Central Powers

a)

Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States

b)

Mexico

c)

Australia

d)

Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire

29.

Allied Powers (WWI)

a)

Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States

b)

Mexico

c)

Australia

d)

Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire

30.

Stalemate

a)

A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

b)

A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible

c)

German submarines

d)

British passenger liner sunk in 1915 that helped sway American opinion of the war.

31.

mobilize

a)

A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

b)

A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible

c)

to prepare for war

d)

an increase in the importance of the military of a country

32.
a)

Nicaragua

b)

Panamá

c)

México

d)

Guatemala

33.
a)

Cuba

b)

Puerto Rico

c)

República Dominicana

d)

Costa Rica

34.
Which sea borders Europe to the south? 
a)
North
b)
Baltic
c)
Mediterranean
d)
Caspian
35.
Europe is in which of the following hemispheres? 
a)
southern, northern, eastern
b)
eastern, northern, western
c)
eastern, northern, southern
d)
northern, eastern 
36.
Europe is attached to which continent? 
a)
Africa
b)
South America 
c)
Australia
d)
Asia 
37.

Africa is the ___.

a)

largest continent

b)

2nd largest continent

c)

3rd largest continent

38.

The Nile is the longest river in the world.

a)

true

b)

false

39.

What is the tallest mountain in the world?

a)

Mt. McKinley

b)

Mt. Everlast

c)

Mt. Everest

40.

Why did China decide to lift the one child ban?

a)

They were worried the population would get too old

b)

They thought it was immoral

c)

They wanted to keep up with India in population numbers