Macedonia police use tear gas against migrants

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

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

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

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


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