NewsTracker Answers for week of Aug. 24, 2015

Q: A day after Macedonia declared a state of emergency in two border regions to cope with an influx of migrants, police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse thousands of migrants trying to enter from Greece. Where is Macedonia?

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Q: Macedonia has become a major transit point for migrants trying to reach northern Europe. The migrants have been mobbing trains heading north to Serbia. Macedonia and Serbia were part of which former nation for most of the 20th century?

A. Austria-Hungary

B. Czechoslovakia 

C. Soviet Union

D. Yugoslavia

D. Macedonia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Macedonia is about the size of Vermont and has a population of about 2 million people.

Q: Most of the migrants now trying to go through Macedonia are fleeing a civil war in . . .

A. Albania

B. Bulgaria

C. Syria

D. Turkey

C. Almost 39,000 migrants, most of them Syrians, have registered as passing through Macedonia over the past month. “We want to go to Germany to find a new life because everything has been destroyed in Syria,” said refugee Amina Asmani.

Q: More than 160,000 migrants have flooded into Greece so far this year with many heading north to the now closed border with Macedonia. Most of the migrants entered Greece from which nation?

A. Turkey

B. Tunisia

C. Morocco

D. Libya

A. Many of the refugees fleeing wars in the Mideast and Afghanistan are going through Turkey where they board small boats to cross into Greece and its small Aegean islands. Morocco, Tunisia and Libya also are major transit points for Europe-bound migrants from sub-Saharan Africa as well as the Mideast.

Q: Most migrants do not want to remain in Greece which is in the midst of a financial crisis. The nation with Europe's largest economy expects to take up to 800,000 immigrants seeking asylum this year. Which nation is that?

A. Britain

B. Germany

C. France

D. Italy

B. The German government has reiterated demands for other European Union states to do more to help with the flood of immigrants. Meanwhile, defenses have been strengthened significantly around the French port of Calais to keep migrants from trying to get to Britain, some through the train tunnel under the English Channel.