RUBENSTEIN, An Introduction to Human Geography, The Cultural Landscape Chapter 8 Political Geography MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) An area organized into an independent political unit is a... A) colony. B) nationality. C) satellite. D) state. E) suburb. Answer: D 2) A state with control over its internal affairs has... A) centripetal forces. B) nationality. C) suffrage. D) sovereignty. E) ethnicity. Answer: D 3) Over the past half century, the number of sovereign states in the world... A) has remained approximately the same. B) has increased by a couple of dozen. C) has decreased by a couple of dozen. D) has increased by more than a hundred.