Provided the book has not been requested, the book on the shelf may be borrowed 90 mins before and after the specified time
Booking 2 weeks in advance
7. What constitutes a clear first?
75-85
80-85
70-80
8. Which statement is incorrect about the poems?
15,693 lines of hexameter verse in the Iliad and 12,110 lines in the Odyssey
Acted out by itinerant performers and first written down around 850BC (controversial)
Epic heroic poems set in the Bronze Age (~12th C BC)
9. Which statement is incorrect about the Mercator's Atlas?
The Mercator Projection was, essentially, the first recognisably ‘modern’ map of the world
Europe’s most renowned map maker and engraver of the 16th century
In 1569 produced a map of the world that ‘squared the circle’ of the globe through maths
Highly detailed maps of Europe
10. Which statement is incorrect about Odysessy?
Odysseus’ twenty year journey home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy
Full of gods, monsters and impossible happenings…
12,110 lines
11. When referencing a newspaper which should you not include?
Title
Date
Publication centre
Author/year
Newspaper
Page
12. Which is not a feature of Space II?
Unruliness of time-space. Space is not a grid. Time-space is turbulent
Integration of time and space. Space has been abandoned as being seen as static. ‘Time-space’.
Time-space is indefensible and cannot be broken within the human and physical domains of geography
Co-production of time and space. Both space and time are produced together through ‘things’ encountering each other
Time-space is porous. Elaborated through a spatial system of inclusions and exclusions not of sole totality
13. Which is not a potential for the future?
An ‘integrated-development’ scenario
A ‘separate-development’ scenario
Get better at evangelising geography to non-geographers
An 'independent-accumulative' scenario
A laissez-faire scenario
14. What constitutes a high first?
100-90
80-90
85-95
15. What is not a feature of a geographer?
Components of the research process
Capable of carrying out effective fieldwork
Generic skills of literacy, numeracy and graphacy
Geographical skills
16. What word is used to show that Geography is everywhere and everything?
Multi-disciplinary
Ubiquitous
Jack of all trade
Ambiguous
17. Which is not a feature of a discipline of synthesis?
A Jack of all trades and a master of none
Unique
Affiliations with other standalone disciplines
18. Which statement is incorrect about the rediscovery of ancient mindset?
Science flourished in the Arab world between 800-1000 when the Greeks reveered
Fall of Baghdad to Maltese in 13th C displaced learning and Greek+Arab mindset back to west back to Europe
Found and preserved in the Islamic world and translated to Arabic in the 8th-9th century, centred in Baghdad
Lost in Europe
19. Which is not a critique of the practical consequences of geographical research?
It is too simplistic and relies heavily on theories
Geography served the status quo and should subvert from the capitalist state
Geographers task is to mobilize our powers of thought to formulate concepts and categories, theories and arguments, which we can apply to the task of bringing about a humanizing social change”
20. If the a book has been reprinted but not edited what do you date it as?
