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What is the name of the government program that has funded education for Kiribati youth anticipating the need to one day migrate as a result of climate change?


A) USAID
B) AusAID
C) WHO
D) Peace Corps

E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

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In which country was the Pacific Way developed?


A) Fiji
B) Guam
C) Tahiti
D) Tonga

E) All of the above
F) None of the above

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In Australia,Asians are increasing as a proportion of the population.

A) True
B) False

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Raw materials exports from Oceania to Asia are increasing in absolute terms.

A) True
B) False

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Which country saw three coups d'Γ©tat against legally elected officials in 1987,2000,and 2006?


A) Fiji
B) Guam
C) Tahiti
D) Tonga

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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What was established by the 1986 Treaty of Rarotonga?


A) the great dingo fence
B) the Oceania Free Trade Zone
C) the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone
D) the independence of Polynesia from France

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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Australia has very few large rivers.

A) True
B) False

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Despite certain fallacies about women of Pacific islands perpetuated by popular Western ideas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,evidence appears to suggest that women in traditional societies occupied a low status and had little power,even within the family.

A) True
B) False

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Which of the following is NOT a type of volcanic island?


A) makatea
B) atoll
C) archipelago
D) high island

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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As Oceania has oriented itself toward Asia,the major export sectors in Australia and New Zealand,including cattle,dairy,and coal producers,have increasingly lost business to higher-tech competitors from Asia.

A) True
B) False

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The country that is home to 15 times as many sheep as people is:


A) Australia.
B) Tonga.
C) Papua New Guinea.
D) New Zealand.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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Which country controls Tahiti and the rest of the Society Islands,the Marquesas Islands,and the Tuamotu Archipelago?


A) the United States
B) France
C) Spain
D) Portugal

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Since the 1960s and early 1970s,what world region has emerged as a significant market for the products of Oceania's countries,particularly Australia and New Zealand?


A) South America
B) Asia
C) Africa
D) Russia and Belarus

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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Which of the following islands of Oceania was/were NOT a part of the Gondwana landmass?


A) New Guinea
B) New Caledonia
C) the main islands of Fiji
D) New Zealand

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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The country whose indigenous population was devastated by environmental pollution wrought by the Ok Tedi Mine is:


A) Nauru.
B) Tonga.
C) Papua New Guinea.
D) Samoa.

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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Australia and New Zealand remain strong military allies of the United States.

A) True
B) False

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Oceania is composed primarily of ocean.

A) True
B) False

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Until quite recently,most people of European descent in Australia and New Zealand thought of themselves as Europeans in exile.

A) True
B) False

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In general,the native peoples of Australia were treated with respect by European colonizers.

A) True
B) False

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Today,very few Aboriginal people practice their own cultural traditions or live close to ancient homelands.

A) True
B) False

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