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final test

Total questions: 75

Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
  1. The word that is made from the two Greek words for “people” and “rule” is:

a)
oligarchy
b)
monarchy
c)
autocracy
d)
democracy
2.
  1. The series of attempts to recapture Jerusalem from the Turks is called the:

a)
Crusades
b)
Sack of Constantinople
c)
Inquisition
d)
Reconquista
3.
  1. The Roman general who “crossed the Rubicon” was:

a)
Julius Caesar
b)
Marcus Aurelius
c)
Gaius Marius
d)
Pompey the Great
4.
  1. Promised, “I will be good”:

a)

Solomon

b)

Queen Elizabeth

c)

Queen Victoria

d)

David

5.
  1. Defeated the Spanish Armada:

a)

Solomon

b)

Queen Victoria

c)

Queen Elizabeth

d)

David

6.
  1. Probably the greatest English author:

a)
William Shakespeare
b)
George Orwell
c)
Jane Austen
d)
Charles Dickens
7.
  1. The series of wars that Rome fought against Carthage were the:

a)
Macedonian Wars
b)
Punic Wars
c)
Samaritan Wars
d)
Gallic Wars
8.
  1. John Calvin, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Eiffel Tower, Mont Blanc:

a)
Germany
b)
Spain
c)
Italy
d)
France
9.
  1. ohann Sebastian Bach, Adolf Hitler, “Land of the Reformation”, divided after World

    War II:

a)
Germany
b)
France
c)
Italy
d)
Poland
10.
  1. “Land of Fire and Ice”, hot springs, geysers, glaciers, tundra:

a)
Greenland
b)
Norway
c)
Sweden
d)
Iceland
11.
  1. Tulips, Windmills, wooden shoes, dikes, low lands:

a)
Germany
b)
France
c)
Netherlands
d)
Belgium
12.
  1. Leonardo da Vinci, Mussolini, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Mt. Vesuvius:

a)
France
b)
Greece
c)
Spain
d)
Italy
13.
  1. Capital of Norway:

a)
Helsinki
b)
Oslo
c)
Stockholm
d)
Copenhagen
14.
  1. Capital of Switzerland:

a)
Geneva
b)
Zurich
c)
Bern
d)
Lausanne
15.
  1. Capital of Austria:

a)
Bratislava
b)
Vienna
c)
Prague
d)
Budapest
16.
  1. Capital of Germany:

a)
Hamburg
b)
Frankfurt
c)
Munich
d)
Berlin
17.
  1. Capital of Russia:

a)
Kyiv
b)
Moscow
c)
St. Petersburg
d)
Minsk
18.
  1. Capital of Finland:

a)
Helsinki
b)
Oslo
c)
Stockholm
d)
Copenhagen
19.
  1. Capital of Poland:

a)
Warsaw
b)
Wroclaw
c)
Gdansk
d)
Krakow
20.
  1. Capital of Italy:

a)
Rome
b)
Florence
c)
Milan
d)
Venice
21.
  1. The narrow waterway separating Europe from Asia is the:

a)
English Channel
b)
Mediterranean Sea
c)
Dardanelles Strait
d)

Strait of Gibraltar

22.
  1. The largest level region in the world is the:

a)
Sahara Desert
b)
Great Plains
c)
Gobi Desert
d)
  1. West Siberian Plain

23.
  1. The mountains that separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe are the:

a)
Alps
b)
Rocky Mountains
c)
Pyrenees
d)
Appalachians
24.
  1. One of the waterways that gives Russia access to the Black Sea is the:

a)
Volga River
b)
Dnieper River
c)
Neva River
d)

Dardanelles

25.
  1. The highest peak in Europe is:

a)
Mount Elbrus
b)
Matterhorn
c)
Kilimanjaro
d)
Mont Blanc
26.
  1. The first leader of a Communist state was:

a)
Joseph Stalin
b)
Fidel Castro
c)
Mao Zedong
d)
Vladimir Lenin
27.
  1. After the Soviet Union fell, the most powerful Russian leader was:

a)
Mikhail Gorbachev
b)
Vladimir Putin
c)
Boris Yeltsin
d)
Dmitry Medvedev
28.
  1. The longest river in Europe is the:

a)
Danube River
b)
Volga River
c)
Rhine River
d)
Thames River
29.

Karl Marx was the founder of:

a)
Capitalism
b)

Democracy

c)
Socialism
d)
Communism
30.

New Zealand’s capital:

a)
Wellington
b)
Auckland
c)
Christchurch
d)
Hamilton
31.

Antarctica’s highest peak:

a)
K2
b)
Mount Kilimanjaro
c)
Vinson Massif
d)
Mount Everest
32.

The largest artesian basin in the world:

a)
Nile River Basin
b)
Great Artesian Basin
c)
Amazon Basin
d)
Sahara Desert
33.

Australia’s highest peak:

a)
Mount Everest
b)
Mount Elbrus
c)
Mount Kosciuszko
d)
K2
34.

Papua New Guinea’s capital:

a)
Port Moresby City
b)
Lae
c)
Port Moresby
d)
Madang
35.

The migration champion of the world:

a)

Arctic tern

b)

monarch butterfly

c)

ducks

d)

bees

36.

The early settlers of New Zealand were the:

a)
British
b)
Māori
c)
Dutch
d)
French
37.

The first man to insist that Antarctica was actually a continent was:

a)
James Cook
b)
Ernest Shackleton
c)
Robert Falcon Scott
d)
Charles Wilkes
38.

The first man to reach the South Pole was:

a)
Roald Amundsen
b)
James Cook
c)
Ernest Shackleton
d)
Robert Falcon Scott
39.

The native inhabitants of Australia were the:

a)

Aborigines

b)
Native Americans
c)
Maori people
d)
Inuit tribes
40.

An area of underground water is called an:

a)

artista basin

b)
well
c)
spring
d)
lake
41.

Because Australia is completely below the equator it is often called:

a)
The Land of Oz
b)
The Southern Hemisphere
c)
The Great Southern Land
d)

The Land Down Under

42.

The word that means “small islands” is:

a)

Micronesia

b)

Polynesia

c)
peninsulas
d)
coves
43.

Australia is the world’s leading producer of:

a)
cotton
b)
silk
c)
coffee
d)
wool
44.

Because Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere, Christmas comes in the:

a)
summer
b)
winter
c)
autumn
d)
spring
45.

The famous bard of ancient Greece was:

a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
d)
Homer
46.

The most important task performed by the monks was copying and preserving:

a)
historical documents and records
b)
scientific research papers
c)
literary novels and fiction
d)

Scriptures

47.

First to translate the Bible into English:

a)
Henry VIII
b)
William Tyndale
c)
Martin Luther
d)
John Wycliffe
48.

Founded the modern nursing profession:

a)
Mary Seacole
b)
Florence Nightingale
c)
Clara Barton
d)
Dorothea Dix
49.

The first emperor of Rome was:

a)
Julius Caesar
b)
Nero
c)
Tiberius
d)

Augustus Caesar

50.

Began the Protestant Reformation:

a)
John Calvin
b)
Martin Luther
c)
Henry VIII
d)
Ulrich Zwingli
51.

Invented the printing press:

a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Leonardo da Vinci
c)
Isaac Newton
d)
Johannes Gutenberg
52.

Cortés, Valencia oranges, The Tidelands, matadors:

a)

Mexico

b)

Spain

c)

France

d)

Italy

53.

Jutland, Hans Christian Andersen, Greenland:

a)
Denmark
b)
Iceland
c)
Sweden
d)
Norway
54.

William Tell, neutral republic, landlocked, International Red Cross:

a)
Germany
b)
Austria
c)
Italy
d)
Switzerland
55.

“Land of the Midnight Sun”, fjords, Oslo:

a)
Denmark
b)
Finland
c)
Norway
d)
Sweden
56.

The cold, treeless lands north of the Arctic circle are called:

a)
tundra
b)
savanna
c)
desert
d)
rainforest
57.

The world’s deepest freshwater lake is:

a)
Lake Baikal
b)
Lake Tanganyika
c)
Lake Victoria
d)
Lake Superior
58.

Stalin was famous for the:

a)
democratic reforms in Eastern Europe
b)
industrial policies in the United States
c)
peace treaties with Western nations
d)

the great purge

59.
  1. Australia’s capital:

a)
Melbourne
b)
Sydney
c)
Brisbane
d)
Canberra
60.
  1. Khrushchev threatened to “bury”:

a)

The United States

b)
the North
c)
the South
d)
the East
61.
  1. The longest coral reef in the world:

a)
Coral Triangle
b)
Belize Barrier Reef
c)
Red Sea Coral Reef
d)
Great Barrier Reef
62.
  1. Australia’s longest river flowing year-round:

a)
Murray River
b)
Gascoyne River
c)
Lachlan River
d)
Darling River
63.
  1. The highest island peak in the world:

a)
Mount Everest
b)
Kilimanjaro
c)
  1. Mt. Wilhelm

d)
Aconcagua
64.
  1. The first man to sail around the Antarctic Circle was:

a)
Captain James Cook
b)
Ferdinand Magellan
c)
Christopher Columbus
d)
Sir Francis Drake
65.
  1. A famous missionary to the Pacific Islands was:

a)
Henry Martyn
b)
William Carey
c)

John G. Paton

d)
David Livingstone
66.
  1. Ivan IV was the first ??? of Russia:

a)

Czar

b)
Duke
c)
King
d)
Emperor
67.
  1. More languages are spoken in:

a)
Asia
b)
Europe
c)

Papua New Guinea

d)
North America
68.
  1. The most famous Antarctic explorer was:

a)

Richard Byrd

b)
Ernest Shackleton
c)
James Cook
d)
Robert Falcon Scott
69.
  1. A place where manufacturing is done is called an:

a)

industrial center

b)
store
c)
warehouse
d)
distribution center
70.
  1. The 20,000-30,000 islands in the Pacific are called:

a)

Oceania

b)
Caribbean Islands
c)
Indian Ocean Islands
d)
Mediterranean Islands
71.
  1. The part of Oceania with the most people is:

a)

Melanesia

b)
Papua New Guinea
c)
Fiji
d)
New Zealand
72.
  1. Australia’s most important tree, the ???, is known as a gum tree:

a)
Acacia
b)
Pine
c)
Maple
d)
Eucalyptus
73.
  1. The Australian Dog Fence was built to keep wild dogs known as ??? away from the sheep:

a)
wolves
b)
foxes
c)
dingoes
d)
cats
74.
  1. Australia’s Cenral Lowlands and Western Plateau are often called the:

a)
Australian Alps
b)
Nullarbor Plain
c)
Great Dividing Range
d)
Outback
75.
  1. The word that means “many islands” is:

a)
continent
b)
peninsula
c)
isthmus
d)

Polynesia