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CHAPTER 3 OPEN BOOK QUIZ

1. Which country has the most mobile population.

a.   England

b.   United States

c.   France

d.   Ireland

2. Emigration occurs when a person:

a.   moves from their home country

b    relocates to another part of their own country

c.   enters a new country as a migrant

d.   moves to another location in the same town

3. Which of the following is the best answer for why people migrate.

a.   armed conflict and civil war

b.   a combination of factors

c.   political circumstances

d.   economic conditions

4. One of the world’s largest forced migrations and most devastating was the slave trading. Which of the following was NOT a consequence of that event.

a. children were orphaned

b. communities were disrupted

c. equal numbers of men and women were taken

d. mostly young men were taken

5. Between 1835 and 1935 perhaps as many as ? million people left Europe for the New World and other overseas’ territories..

a. 35

b. 50

c. 75

d. 90

6. In 1990, the center of the U.S. population, as shown in Figure 6-5, was located in the state of:

a.     Iowa

b.    Indian

c.    Kentucky

d.    Missouri

7.  Which group of people suffered the worst as refugees after the Gulf War in 1991?

a.   Iranians

b.   Kurdish

c.   Palestinians

d.   Kuwait people

8.  What former European country has had the largest number of refugees since World War II?

a.   Bulgaria

b.   Czechoslovakia

c.   Albania

d.   Yugoslavia

9. In the post-World War II period, millions of foreign workers migrated from North Africa to which of the following European countries.

a.    Spain

b.    France

c.    Germany

d.    Hungary

10. The most difficult obstacles faced by people migrating today are ? barriers.

a.    physical

b.    economic

c.    transportation

d.    political

11. The name for the seasonal migration of farmers and their cattle up and down the mountain slopes of Switzerland?

a. internal migration

b. communting

c. activity spaces

d. transhumance

e. voluntary migration

12. On average, about how often does the average American citizen move?

a. 4 years

b. 5 years

c. 6 years

d. 7 years

e. 8 years

13. On what African island was the East African slave trade concentrated?

a. Zanzibar

b. Madagascar

c. Mayotte

d. Comoros

e. Mauritius

14. In mathematical terms, it is the multiplication of the populations of two places

divided by the distance between them.

a. law of migration

b. intervening opportunity

c. push-pull equation

d. transhumance

e. gravity model

15. What Southeast Asian people were brought by the Dutch to settle their colony of Suriname (Dutch Guiana)?

a. Javanese

b. Malaysians

c. Singaporeans

d. Sumatrans

e. Filipinos

16. What minority group in Southeast Asia accounts for 14% of the Thailand, 32% of the Malaysia, and 76% of the Singapore populations?

a. Tamil Indians

b. Chinese

c. Sri Lankans

d. Filipinos

e. Burmese

17. Russification refers to

a. the evolution of the Rus from their Scandinavian origins (the Varangians) to the Eastern Slavs

b. the adoption of the russet potato as the staple of the Irish diet

c. a Soviet era restrictive immigration policy

d. the return of Russians to Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union

e. Russia’s policy to encourage Russians to migrate to non-Russian parts of their land empire

18. Civil wars have recently been fought in what 2 West African countries?

a. Guinea & Senegal

b. Guinea & Ivory Coast

c. Liberia & Sierra Leone

d. Gambia & Ghana

e. Nigeria & Cameroon

19. Why did the US restrict immigration from Southern Europe after WWI?

a. many white Americans saw the darker skinned Southern Europeans as an inferior race of whites

b. the region was a hotbed of anti-Americanism

c. Southern Europe was technologically less sophisticated

d. at 1 time, the US was favoring immigrants from China to work on the railroads

e. on the contrary, Southern European immigration accelerated after WWI

20. Where is the worst refugee crisis in the world today?

a. Sudan

b. Nigeria

c. Rwanda-Burundi

d. Palestine

e. Cambodia

21. Which of the following is an example of chain migration?

a. drought leads to famine in the Punjab, which leads to desperation, which leads to emigration

b. the Dutch first brought people from Indonesia to the Caribbean, and then from other Dutch colonies around the world

c. 1 village after another comes under attack by rebels, forcing the people of those villages to migrate to safer areas

d. in a rural town in Jalisco, Mexico, one person manages to migrate legally to the US and settles in Elgin, IL. He finds a job, prospers and writes home of his success. 10 years later there is a community of 350 people from Jalisco living in Elgin.

e. refers specifically to migrations from Central America, starting in Mexico, then moving through El Salvador, through the Central American states of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and finally Panama.

22. Which of the following was NOT given as a reason for the disparity between the UN’s calculation of global refugees, and the numbers given by other organizations?

a. the UN inflates the numbers thus requiring a bigger budget to provide aid to refugees

b. different definitions for what constitutes a refugee

c. refugees often flee to remote areas where they cannot be counted

d. governments sometimes manipulate refugees numbers for political reasons

e. the distinction between internal and international refugees

23. Why are there such large numbers of Kurdish refugees in the Middle East?

a. long term drought has forced them off their lands

b. Turkey is the only country that accepts Kurds as refugees

c. Kurds are ethnically related to the Roma (Gypsies) and are not welcome in most countries

d. a consequence of the US invasion of Iraq

e. the Kurds are a nation (an ethnic group) without a sovereign state of their own

24. Which of the following is a consequence of the large number of men who dies in both World Wars?

a. large numbers of North Africans (ie Algerians) migrated to German speaking countries

b. after the war, women replaced men in factory jobs

c. Germany, in particular, brought in guest workers, mainly from Turkey

d. most European countries adopted restrictive immigration policies

e. the center of European population shifted to the southeast

25. What is 1 of the consequences of the fences the US builds along the border with Mexico, especially those separating cities on both sides of the border?

a. since the fences are designed to be attractive and friendly, relations between the countries have been improved

b. US companies are investing more in maquiladoras

c. desperate migrants have started carrying guns and confronting the Boarder Patrol

d. remittances from the US to Mexico have been sharply reduced

e. it forces illegal immigrants to cross in hostile terrain, such as deserts, leading to more people dying

TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS

1.  Relative direction and relative distance are both perceptual. (T F)

2.  The term internal migration is how geographers describe the migration of black families that moved from the South to the North in the United States. (T F)

3.  Economic conditions have not been a major reason for emigration. (T F)

4. Because of distance decay, many migrants move in what is called step migration. (T F)

5.  There are many more international refugees than intranational refugees. (T F)

6. In forecasting the future, experts believe the refugee problem will lessen and probably disappear. (T F)

7. Vacations are a type of nomadism. (T F)

8. Today, the internal migration flow in the United States is one-way to the South and Southwest. (T F)

9. The Great Wall of China was built primarily to keep people from emigrating. (T F)

10. Many countries have never passed immigration laws restricting persons of different ethnic backgrounds. (T F)

STUDY QUESTIONS

1.  Describe external and internal migration. What is the difference? How has internal migration affected the United States great urban areas?

2.  List and define the factors that make people migrate. How do push/pull factors come into play?  Relate Ernst Ravenstein's five “laws” and apply them to migrations given as examples in this chapter.

3.  List the differences between voluntary and forced migration.

4.  List the three characteristics that distinguish refugees from migrants. Can you describe situations that might create intranational refugees? Describe the situations that have created refugee crises in Africa (look at the Sudan).

5.  When we speak of refugees we use the terms intranational and international. Define each. Why is it a problem to determine exactly how many refugees are in the world today? How does the United Nations’ definition of a refugee fit into this problem?

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