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Taiwan Map Quiz Number 8 (Abbreviations)

Instructions: Answer the multiple choice questions, guessing if necessary; then click on the "Process Questions" button at the end of the quiz to see your score in the adjacent message box. The program will not reveal which questions you got wrong, only how many points you have. Go back and change your answers until you get them all right. (The message box will rejoice at that point and the page will change color to show it is tickled pink.)

Points to note: (1) Questions with only one possible answer are one point each. (2) Questions with one or more possible answers (represented by check boxes) give a point for each correct answer, but also subtract a point for each wrong answer! (3) The program will not attempt to score your efforts at all if you have not tried at least half of the questions. (4) This quiz is for your own use only. No record of your progress is kept or reported to anyone.

This quiz is the hardest of all because it uses only the three-letter abbreviations. In theory the abbreviations are easy to use, but they depend on your already knowing the names of the cities and counties that they stand for.
1. Some Taiwan xiàn lie along the eastern coast of the island. Which 3 in the following list are so located?
TNX  TDX  XZX  HLX  YLX  ILX  JYX 
2. In 2010 two of the entities on the map were merged into a single one. Which two?
TNX and TNS 
TBS and TBX 
TNX and JYX 
JLS and TBS 
GXX and PDX 
No Answer
3. Two Taiwan xiàn are especially mountainous. Which one of the following pairs of adjacent xiàn best qualifies for this description:
TYX and TBX 
JYX and TNX 
NTX and GXX 
ILX and TBX 
No Answer
4. Two Taiwan xiàn are the “breadbasket” of the island, where most food is grown, and geographers often combine their names into the name of a fertile plain. Which of the following pairs of adjacent xiàn best qualifies for this description:
TYX and TBX 
JYX and TNX 
NTX and GXX 
ILX and TBX 
No Answer
5. Two of the five designated urban areas (shì) lack a sea coast. Which two?
GXS  JLS  TBS  TNS  TZS 
6. Today, the political capital of Taiwan is
PDX  TNS  TBS  ILX  JLS  YLX  No Answer

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