1. TRUE or FALSE: Within a generation or two, Japan may have its first female emperor.

2. A country's head of state is not always an elected official. True or false: The current head of state of Sweden is its king, Carl XVI Gustaf.

3. These Caribbean islands are classified as dependent states or overseas departments of larger nations. Although these islands have local governments, their official heads of state reside in larger nations. Match each island with the country in which its official head of state resides.

   A. Aruba	1. United Kingdom
   B. Cayman Islands	2. France
   C. Martinique	3. Netherlands

4. In 1994, a multinational military force temporarily restored exiled leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president of Haiti. (He served as President on three separate occasions). True or false: Aristide is a former Roman Catholic priest.

5. Who among the following is the current prime minister of Canada?
   
   

   A. Queen Elizabeth II

   B. Stephen Harper

   C. Jean Chrétien

6. True or false: The United Kingdom's election of Tony Blair in May 1997 marked the end of eighteen years of rule by Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

7. Which of the following countries has both a prime minister and a president?
   
   

   A. Brazil

   B. Qatar

   C. Singapore

8. General Alfredo Stroessner was the longest-ruling head of state and president in the Western Hemisphere in the twentieth century. True or false: Stroessner remains president of Paraguay.

9. Oscar Arias received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1987 for his work in negotiating a Central American peace plan. He was president of which nation?
   
   

   A. El Salvador

   B. Costa Rica

   C. Honduras

10. Edith Cresson was a controversial French politician. True or false: In 1991 she became the first woman to serve as prime minister of France.

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