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Chapter 12: Eastern Europe Today
      
  1.The most important industry in Poland is __________.  
  a.   coal mining  
  b.   tourism  
  c.   computer technology  
  d.   shipbuilding  
      
  2.In 1978 Karol Wojtyla became the first __________ to be named pope, or head of the Roman Catholic Church.  
  a.   Czech  
  b.   Romanian  
  c.   Slav  
  d.   Pole  
      
  3.The three Baltic Republics are __________.  
  a.   Romania, Albania, and Hungary  
  b.   the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia  
  c.   Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania  
  d.   Slovenia, Slovakia, and Croatia  
      
  4.__________ history and culture were greatly influenced by the Romans.  
  a.   Poland’s  
  b.   Romania’s  
  c.   Ukraine’s  
  d.   Bulgaria’s  
      
  5.Hungary is a landlocked country that uses the Danube River for __________.  
  a.   rowing races  
  b.   sightseeing boats  
  c.   trade and transportation  
  d.   hydroelectric power  
      
  6.About 90 percent of Hungary’s people are descended from the __________.  
  a.   Slavs  
  b.   Magyars  
  c.   Russians  
  d.   Mongols  
      
  7.The capital of the Czech Republic is __________.  
  a.   Belgrade  
  b.   Gdansk  
  c.   Prague  
  d.   Budapest  
      
  8.The capital and largest city of Belarus is __________.  
  a.   Minsk  
  b.   Kiev  
  c.   Skopje  
  d.   Prague  
      
  9.In the early 1990s the country of __________ broke apart into five small republics.  
  a.   Czechoslovakia  
  b.   Macedonia  
  c.   Yugoslavia  
  d.   Bulgaria  
      
  10.__________ has earned the name “breadbasket of Europe.”  
  a.   Moldova  
  b.   Ukraine  
  c.   Belarus  
  d.   Romania  

 






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