Timmy's Geography Teacher Gives the Class a Pop Quiz in Which

question 65

Multiple Choice

Timmy's geography teacher gives the class a pop quiz in which he asks the class to draw a map of North America, which they learned about in the previous day's lesson. Knowing what you do about mental representations, how well do you think Timmy would do on this quiz?

• A) He will draw a perfect map of North America.
• B) He will get some of the details correct, but his map will contain many errors.
• C) His map will be so far off that it will not even resemble North America.
• D) The U.S. portion of the map will be very accurate, but Canada and Mexico will be distorted.

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