In studying for the fall semester's map quiz, keep at hand at least three things:

1. The hand-out labelled "China's Geography," distributed on the first day of class and available via Blackboard | Course Documents.;
2. A blank map of China, showing the contemporary provincial boundaries, which be used for practice ( eventually I'll get one up here on the web...); and
3. References: class texts, hand-outs, any of the works listed under "Geography" at the end of your syllabus, or anything else you can get your hands on.

You are responsible for being able to locate everything listed on the "China's Geography" hand-out under the headings of "mountains", "geographic features and regions", "rivers", "lakes", and "cities". You are not responsible for "words often found in place-names" [which are provided only for your reference], "geologic formations" or the "current political divisions of the PRC" found at the end of the hand-out. (However, you will be tested on the provincial names and capitals during the Spring semester, and being familiar with them now will make it easier to follow the lectures.)

On the day of the map quiz (indicated in your syllabus), you will be given a map similar to the blank one distributed today. It will not have the provincial boundaries marked, but will indicate cities by dots, rivers by solid lines, lakes by , regions by [*** ; OK, I haven't figured out how to put hand-drawn graphics into a webpage yet...], mountains by  [***], Great Walls by [***], etc. Each feature will have a number associated with it.

You will also be given a list of twenty-five place-names, cited exactly⁽¹⁾ as printed on the initial hand-out, each followed by a blank. All you have to do is choose twenty and write in the number of the feature which matches the name. The quiz will provide the following instruction:

Choose only twenty (20) of the following twenty-five place-names to identify. If you're so compulsive as to answer all twenty-five, then at least note your least secure responses with question-marks; otherwise, I'll just grade the first twenty. While your grade will depend upon the twenty "secure" responses, an incorrect "secure" response can be partly compensated for by a correct "insecure" response.