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Progress Test covers the course materials that were assigned in Units 5 and 6. Although the progress test is similar in style to the unit evaluations, the progress test is a closed-book, proctored test. You may not have access to notes or any of the course materials while you are taking the test. It is important that you do your own work. Select the response that best completes the statement or answers the question.

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Course Name: World Cultures 1: Western Hemisphere and Europe Student: Cheng Zhou Course ID: SSTH053058 ID: E27350488 Submittal: 59 Progress Test 3 This Progress Test covers the course materials that were assigned in Units 5 and 6. Although the progress test is similar in style to the unit evaluations, the progress test is a closed-book, proctored test. You may not have access to notes or any of the course materials while you are taking the test. It is important that you do your own work. Select the response that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. According to the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I, which country was at fault for the war? a. b. c. ____ 2. Which language group includes Italian, French, and Spanish? a. b. c. ____ 3. is regularly attacked by thieves and tigers. plays an important role in world economy. still operates with steam engines. What is permafrost? a. b. c. ____ 7. There was an explosion of ideas expressed in art, literature, and architecture. The feudal system developed. Julius Caesar rose to power and became rule of Rome. Today the Trans-Siberian Railroad a. b. c. ____ 6. The printing press made books more available to people. Machines were used create goods in textile factories. Maps were created of all the known world. Which of the following happened during the Renaissance in Europe? a. b. c. ____ 5. Germanic Romance Slavic What was one important result of the Industrial Revolution? a. b. c. ____ 4. Italy Germany Russia a frozen desert in the arctic region permanently frozen ground the thick layer of ice covering most mineral deposits Gorbachev's movement for restructuring the economy in the Soviet Union was called a. b. c. glasnost. perestroika. autonomy. ____ 8. Who were the Bolsheviks? a. b. c. ____ 9. a political group. factory workers in Russia hungry peasants in Russian cities The largest and most heavily-populated cities in Europe are located a. b. c. along the Mediterranean coast. in the Western Uplands. in the Northern European Plain. ____ 10. What percentage of France's electricity is generated by nuclear energy? a. b. c. 25 percent 50 percent 75 percent ____ 11. Who built the Trans-Siberian Railroad? a. b. c. farmers, nomads, and herders workers from China and Europe peasants, convicts, and soldiers ____ 12. The first modern novel, Don Quixote, was written by Spanish author a. b. c. Miguel de Cervantes. Shakespeare. Dante. ____ 13. What was Czar Alexander II's goal in freeing the serfs? a. b. c. He wanted to modernize Russia's agriculture and increase food production. He wanted to punish the landlords. He wanted serfs to be free to work in industry. ____ 14. Which era is highlighted by Euclid's geometry, the change in the practice of medicine by Hippocrates, and the philosophers Socrates and Plato? a. b. c. the Roman Empire Alexander the Great's Empire the golden age of Greece ____ 15. What did Peter the Great think was most important about St. Petersburg's location? a. b. c. It has a great climate for tourism. It provides a port on the Baltic Sea for trade. It has many canals, islands, and bridges. ____ 16. In 450 B.C. what did the Roman government publish that laid out the rights and responsibilities of Roman citizens? a. b. c. the Republican Code the Twelve Tables the Declaration of Independence ____ 17. What was Gorbachev's policy of glasnost in the Soviet Union? a. b. c. a policy that encouraged people to speak openly about the government a policy that helped to restructure the economy, with less government control a policy that gave all the republics autonomy ____ 18. How long do experts estimate will it take before the radiation-related problems in Belarus and the Ukraine caused by the Chernobyl disaster will go away? a. b. c. 30 years 60 years 100s of years ____ 19. Who can vote in Russia? a. b. c. everyone 18 years and older only members of the political parties only Communists ____ 20. The area near the Caspian Sea is valuable because a. b. c. it provides water for irrigating farms. it has vast oil and natural gas reserves. It is an ideal location for nuclear power plants. ____ 21. A great legacy, or heritage of the Roman Empire is the a. b. c. advanced weaponry to use against invaders. network of roads connecting the empire. invention of the printing press. ____ 22. What foods would you be more likely to find in Eastern European countries? a. b. c. root vegetables and breads potatoes and gravies herring and deer meat ____ 23. Almost 20 percent of the reserves of what mineral are located in Russia and the Eurasian republics? a. b. c. gold iron ore aluminum ____ 24. Which of the following is the most widely practiced religion in Europe? a. b. c. Christianity Islam Judaism ____ 25. After 1991, many Eastern European countries used ________________ to move to a market economy. a. b. c. democratization communism privatization ____ 26. One reason why many people migrate to Europe is to a. b. c. to sell goods from back home. to purchase homes of their own. escape conflicts or unjust governments. ____ 27. What city is considered the cultural center of Russia? a. b. c. Kiev Moscow St. Petersburg ____ 28. Nationalism is a. b. c. a social system that denied black South Africans their rights. the process of governing a colony. a strong sense of loyalty to one's country. ____ 29. What was one consequence of the Chernobyl disaster? a. b. c. An estimated 600,000 people received significant radiation exposure. Fires burned homes and killed over 1,000 people. Flooding destroyed plants and animals in 6,000 square miles. ____ 30. What type of government does Russia have today? a. b. c. a federal system a monarchy Communist ____ 31. Valuable timber resources are found in the ___________ area of Russia. a. b. c. taiga tundra steppes ____ 32. Why was the European Union formed? a. b. c. to give workers equal wages to extend their economic organization throughout Europe to treat countries as one nation ____ 33. _______________________ has/have limited the population of Russia and the Eurasian republics. a. b. c. Geographic features Wars The availability of natural resources ____ 34. ____________________ promoted education, hospitals, and freedom of religion in Russia. a. b. c. Peter the Great Ivan the Great Catherine the Great ____ 35. The imaginary boundary between Eastern and Western Europe was called the Iron Curtain. This division marked the beginning of the a. b. c. Iron Curtain. Holocaust. Cold War. ____ 36. The rulers of Athens laid the groundwork for a. b. c. democracy. tyranny. monarchy. ____ 37. Where do Russian nomads get their food and clothing? a. b. c. from the animals they herd from farms that grow grains from stores in villages ____ 38. What was one cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union? a. b. c. Europe stopped trading with it. The United States defeated it in a war. The separate republics wanted independence. ____ 39. What kind of rights did the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen guarantee? a. b. c. freedom, liberty, property, and security life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness equality, life, liberty and good governance ____ 40. Artists from which period used perspective to give their work greater depth? a. b. c. Impressionist Romantic Renaissance ____ 41. What geographic feature separates the Western Siberian Plain from the Northern European Plain? a. b. c. the Ural Mountains the Caucasus Mountains the tundra ____ 42. What is one advantage of belonging to the eurozone? a. b. c. It allows people, money, and goods to move freely from country to country. It helps prevent member countries from going into heavy debt. It helps create an open market in which goods can be traded using a tariff, or exchange. ____ 43. What human activities have had an impact on the Mediterranean Sea's ecosystem? a. b. c. building canals and waterways overfishing and overdevelopment reclaiming seabeds for use in farming ____ 44. What is one example of Europe's changing demographics? a. b. c. Many of its countries have rebuilt their economies. It has an aging population. It has imports and exports. ____ 45. Europe was able to conduct so much trade and exploration because a. b. c. people built dikes and created polders. the climate was so mild in all regions. most places had access to water for easier travel. ____ 46. The Cold War led both the United States and the Soviet Union to develop a. b. c. collective farms. nuclear weapons. socialist economies. ____ 47. What provides about one-third of all of Russia's revenue? a. b. c. gold and uranium mining oil and natural gas fishing and grain farming ____ 48. The ___________________ was a Middle Ages social structure shaped like a pyramid with the king at the top and the serfs forming the base. a. b. c. the Roman Way the feudal system the Roman Catholic Church ____ 49. What are polders? a. b. c. deep, narrow bays found in Norway land reclaimed from the seabed giant walls used to hold back the sea ____ 50. Why has western Siberia grown so rapidly? a. b. c. Over 70 percent of Russia's oil comes from there. The climate is moderate. Grain farms are producing surplus crops. Carefully review your answers on this progress test and make any corrections you feel are necessary. 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