Deck 13: Southeast Asia

Question 1

Through which nation does the Mekong River not bisect and/or form part of its international boundary?

A)Thailand
B)Cambodia
C)Laos
D)Malaysia
E)Vietnam

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which Southeast Asian country remains a significant oil exporter relative to the size of its economy?

A)Indonesia
B)Malaysia
C)Burma
D)Brunei
E)Singapore

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What geological feature is associated with the islands of Sumatra, Java, and the Lesser Sunda Islands?

A)rift valleys
B)glacial erosion
C)alpine valleys
D)volcanoes
E)karst topography

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What is the major difference between the two types of tropical climates found in Southeast Asia?

A)the temperature
B)the prevalence of fog
C)the total amount of rainfall
D)the seasonal distribution of rainfall
E)the seasonal distribution of temperature

Question 5

What environmental damage is NOT caused by logging in Southeast Asia?

A)smoke pollution as cut-over land is burned
B)soil salinization
C)soil erosion
D)increased flooding
E)destruction of wildlife habitat

Question 6

Population density in Southeast Asia

A)becomes increasingly less dense as one travels away from the Equator
B)is significantly higher on the island of Borneo than on the island of Java
C)tends to cluster in major river deltas on the mainland and on volcanic islands in the insular regions
D)is uniform across the region
E)is overwhelmingly found in coastal regions

Question 7

What agricultural system is sometimes referred to as "slash and burn"?

A)plantation agriculture
B)intensive subsistence
C)swidden
D)rice cultivation
E)commercial agriculture

Question 8

Which of the following factors did NOT contribute to recent air pollution in Southeast Asia?

A)severe drought turning forests into tinderboxes.
B)increasing automobile traffic
C)commercial logging which includes burning to clear the land.
D)release of toxic gases from fertilizer factories
E)rapidly growing cities in Southeast Asia

Question 9

The islands of Indonesia

A)total less than twenty-five total islands
B)straddle the Equator.
C)are largely non-volcanic
D)have tremendous temperature variations between seasons
E)typically have dry winters.

Question 10

What is the approximate population of Southeast Asia?

A)200 million
B)600 million
C)130 million
D)60 million
E)4000 million

Question 11

Which island bore the brunt of the December 26, 2004 earthquake and subsequent tsunami which killed more than 100,000 people locally?

A)Java
B)Luzon
C)Sumatra
D)Bali
E)Sulawesi

Question 12

High demand for this product in East Asia drives large-scale international logging in Southeast Asia.

A)furniture
B)pharmaceuticals
C)wood veneer
D)biofuels and charcoal
E)plywood and paper pulp

Question 13

Which country of Southeast Asia lies both on the mainland and in the islands of the region?

A)Malaysia
B)Vietnam
C)Laos
D)Brunei
E)Singapore

Question 14

Which country in Southeast Asia contains the largest number of islands?

A)Burma (Myanmar)
B)Philippines
C)Thailand
D)Indonesia
E)Malaysia

Question 15

What is the most densely settled island of Indonesia?

A)Borneo
B)Java
C)Bali
D)Luzon
E)Sumatra

Question 16

During which months are the Philippines most susceptible to typhoons?

A)August-October
B)November-January
C)January-March
D)June-August
E)April-June

Question 17

The Khorat Plateau is largely found in which nation?

A)Philippines
B)Vietnam
C)Malaysia
D)Thailand
E)Myanmar (Burma)

Question 18

What type of climate dominates in most of insular Southeast Asia?

A)occasionally hot and humid
B)constantly cool and dry
C)constantly hot and dry
D)constantly cool and humid
E)constantly hot and humid

Question 19

What is the longest river in Southeast Asia?

A)Irrawaddy
B)Salween
C)Red River
D)Mekong
E)Chao Phraya

Question 20

What factor causes Southeast Asia's role in climate change to be larger than it appears at first glance?

A)deforestation's effect on greenhouse gases in the region
B)the oil industry in the region
C)the region's rapidly growing industrial sector
D)the large number of islands in the region
E)the region's equatorial location

Question 21

What is transmigration?

A)It is the relocation of a nation's population from one location to another within its national territory.
B)It is a long period of migration stagnation, when a nation's population remains in one region for a significantly long period of time.
C)It is a migration of refugees from one nation to another.
D)It is a government-implemented policy forbidding emigration from a nation in any form.
E)It is the forced movement of certain citizens to concentration camps.

Question 22

In what Southeast Asian country is transmigration most common, and a policy of the national government?

A)Philippines
B)Cambodia
C)Indonesia
D)Thailand
E)Malaysia

Question 23

Which country of Southeast Asia has the region's highest total fertility rate?

A)Burma
B)Vietnam
C)East Timor
D)Cambodia
E)Singapore

Question 24

On mainland Southeast Asia, what is the most common crop in the lowlands?

A)sugarcane
B)opium poppies
C)rubber
D)coconuts
E)rice

Question 25

The largest Chinese minority community in Southeast Asia is found in

A)Vietnam
B)Cambodia
C)Thailand
D)Indonesia
E)Laos

Question 26

Which of the following is NOT one of the major external cultural influences on Southeast Asia?

A)migrants from China
B)immigrants from India
C)indentured workers from Japan
D)European Christian missionaries
E)Muslim merchants from South Asia

Question 27

What country is the world's most populous Muslim country?

A)Philippines
B)Burma
C)Indonesia
D)Malaysia
E)Saudi Arabia

Question 28

Under what conditions is swidden cultivation sustainable?

A)when long-term weather patterns provide adequate moisture and warmth
B)when the government intervenes to control land use
C)when private entities purchase land for development
D)when population densities remain low, and where upland people control enough land
E)when there is a large number of people to do the hard, manual labor associated with swidden

Question 29

Which group of Muslims brought Islam to Southeast Asia?

A)merchants
B)warriors
C)refugees
D)missionaries
E)scholars

Question 30

The two predominately Catholic nations of Southeast Asia are

A)Malaysia and Brunei
B)Philippines and East Timor
C)Thailand and Laos
D)Burma and Vietnam
E)Indonesia and Singapore

Question 31

Swidden agriculture

A)has benefited significantly from logging operations.
B)is most common on coastal plains.
C)depletes soil nutrients within a few years.
D)usually is associated with paddy rice production
E)works best in regions of medium to high population density.

Question 32

What product has been grown in the Golden Triangle region of northern, mountainous Southeast Asia?

A)opium
B)rice
C)bananas
D)wheat
E)coca

Question 33

What country in Southeast Asia is a city-state?

A)Singapore
B)Indonesia
C)Thailand
D)Malaysia
E)Burma

Question 34

What country of Southeast Asia has the region's lowest total Fertility Rate with a rate so low (below replacement level)that without immigration, its population will begin to decline?

A)Singapore
B)Cambodia
C)Burma
D)Malaysia
E)Vietnam

Question 35

The island of Bali in Indonesia largely adheres to which religious faith?

A)Roman Catholicism
B)Islam
C)Hinduism
D)Buddhism
E)Judaism

Question 36

The primary faith found on mainland Southeast Asia is

A)animist beliefs
B)Roman Catholicism
C)Buddhism (both the Mahayana and Theravada branches)
D)Hinduism
E)Islam

Question 37

What religion did the indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia practice before the arrival of religions from elsewhere?

A)Islam
B)Animism
C)Hinduism
D)Christianity
E)Buddhism

Question 38

Plantation agriculture in Southeast Asia

A)focused primarily on rice in the early part of the twentieth century.
B)now often focuses on specialty crops like pineapples for export abroad
C)remains as it was 100 years ago.
D)is found only in insular Southeast Asia
E)is exclusive to volcanic regions

Question 39

Efforts among Southeast Asian governments to reduce the problems associated with urban primacy include this country's efforts to promote economic growth in the city of Cebu.

A)Thailand
B)Indonesia
C)Singapore
D)Malaysia
E)Philippines

Question 40

Which of the following urban conditions is relatively common in Southeast Asia?

A)primate cities
B)gentrification
C)counterurbanization
D)major conurbations
E)a megalopolis

Question 41

Who led Burma (Myanmar)from 1988-2011?

A)a wealthy monarchy
B)a centrist democratic party
C)a left-wing labor party
D)an Islamic theocracy
E)a repressive military regime

Question 42

How have Burma's (Myanmar's)ethnic Shan rebels funded their efforts?

A)through prostitution and gambling
B)through Internet operations
C)through donations from international sources
D)by working in construction jobs
E)by growing opium and manufacturing heroin

Question 43

What country is the newest country in Southeast Asia?

A)Indonesia
B)Myanmar
C)Malaysia
D)East Timor
E)Cambodia

Question 44

Which nation in Southeast Asia remained uncolonized throughout the colonial period?

A)Laos
B)Burma
C)Vietnam
D)Cambodia
E)Thailand

Question 45

Which language is viewed as a lingua franca throughout much of Indonesia?

A)Malay
B)Sumatran
C)English
D)Mandarin Chinese
E)Austronesian

Question 46

The islands of the Philippines and Indonesia are largely found in which linguistic family?

A)Tai-Kadai
B)Papuan
C)Tibeto-Burman
D)Mon-Khmer
E)Austronesian

Question 47

Muay thai is a sport famous in Thailand. It is a form of

A)ping-pong
B)kickboxing
C)volleyball
D)soccer
E)a hybrid between soccer and volleyball

Question 48

The Khmer language and ethnic group is most associated with which nation on the mainland of Southeast Asia?

A)Laos
B)Vietnam
C)Thailand
D)Cambodia
E)Burma (Myanmar)

Question 49

What language did Philippine nationalists choose as a language to unite their country?

A)Spanish
B)Malay
C)French
D)Tagalog
E)English

Question 50

The Vietnam War

A)put an end to the brutal policies of the Khmer Rouge.
B)ended with American victory.
C)resulted in a reunified Vietnam.
D)began in the late 1960s.
E)originally involved Spain and Vietnam.

Question 51

Modern-day Indonesia was once a colony of which European country?

A)United States
B)Great Britain
C)Netherlands
D)Spain
E)France

Question 52

The popular noodle soup known as pho originated in which nation of Southeast Asia?

A)Philippines
B)Indonesia
C)Thailand
D)Malaysia
E)Vietnam

Question 53

To which language group does the Vietnamese language belong?

A)Mon-Khmer
B)Papuan
C)Tibeto-Burman
D)Tai-Kadai
E)Austronesian

Question 54

Which one the following languages does NOT have official status in Singapore?

A)Malay
B)Thai
C)English
D)Mandarin Chinese
E)Tamil

Question 55

According to the domino theory, if Vietnam fell to the communists, the two next countries to fall to communism would be

A)Burma and Thailand.
B)North and South Korea.
C)China and Taiwan.
D)Laos and Cambodia.
E)Malaysia and Indonesia.

Question 56

Which country of Southeast Asia has been troubled by tensions from its orthodox Muslim region known as Aceh?

A)Vietnam
B)Indonesia
C)Singapore
D)the Philippines
E)Thailand

Question 57

The Vietnam War started when which European country tried to retain control of its Southeast Asian colonies?

A)United States
B)Spain
C)the Dutch
D)Great Britain
E)France

Question 58

Who were the first Europeans to arrive in Southeast Asia to colonize the region?

A)Portuguese
B)British
C)Spanish
D)Dutch
E)French

Question 59

With what Southeast Asian country were the Khmer Rouge guerrillas associated?

A)Thailand
B)Philippines
C)Cambodia
D)Indonesia
E)Malaysia

Question 60

Which nation in the region did the United States maintain as a colony during the first half of the 20th century?

A)Malaysia
B)Vietnam
C)Indonesia
D)Philippines
E)Brunei

Question 61

What is the mission of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)?

A)ASEAN is a military alliance (like NATO).
B)ASEAN was created to improve education in the region.
C)ASEAN's primary goal is to clean up the environment in the region.
D)ASEAN fosters regional cooperation and regional coherence.
E)ASEAN is a free-trade association, like NAFTA or the European Union.

Question 62

What is education like in Southeast Asia?

A)emphasis on basic and university education, but inadequate attention given to technical education
B)a good education system, including basic, technical, and university education
C)emphasis on basic education, but inadequate attention given to university and technical education
D)an inadequate education system, with little attention paid to basic education, and even less to technical and university education
E)emphasis on basic and technical education, but inadequate attention given to graduate-school education

Question 63

Which nation in Southeast Asia engages in a controversial policy of wealth transfer to the "Bumiputra"?

A)Laos
B)Philippines
C)Singapore
D)Vietnam
E)Malaysia

Question 64

Which nation with a large English-speaking population has become a major "call-center" for American companies for customers to contact when they need IT support?

A)Philippines
B)Vietnam
C)Laos
D)Malaysia
E)Singapore

Question 65

What waterway key to international shipping in Southeast Asia is also notorious for piracy?

A)Strait of Malacca
B)South China Sea
C)Java Sea
D)Philippine Sea
E)Gulf of Thailand

Question 66

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the socioeconomic situation in Malaysia?

A)Ethnic Malays tend to be better educated and wealthier than the Chinese and Indian minorities.
B)Tribal peoples within Malaysia have some of the highest levels of education and wealth.
C)Malaysia's industrial wealth is concentrated in the hands of the Chinese minority.
D)Malaysia is the recipient of well-educated citizens of other Southeast Asian nations who lose them to Malaysia as a result of the "brain drain."
E)The Bumiputra policies were promulgated to assist the economically disadvantaged Chinese and Indian minority populations of Malaysia.

Question 67

Where do most of the rebellious ethnic groups of Burma (Myanmar)live?

A)in the port cities of Burma
B)in frontier regions, far from the urban areas of the nation
C)just across the border in Thailand
D)in middle-sized municipalities
E)in the capital city

Question 68

What is the main cause of Burma's (Myanmar's)lack of economic development?

A)a lack of resources
B)an international economic embargo
C)internal warfare and economic policy
D)economic policy
E)internal warfare

Question 69

The monuments of Angkor Wat bring in almost half a million foreign tourists a year into which nation?

A)Cambodia
B)Thailand
C)Vietnam
D)Burma
E)Laos

Question 70

Which nation has transformed itself from an entrepôt into a major nexus for banking, communications and biotechnological research?

A)Malaysia
B)Philippines
C)Singapore
D)Laos
E)Vietnam

Question 71

What minority population, located in western Burma, is often referred to as the "most persecuted ethnic group in the world"

A)Rohingya
B)Karen
C)Shan
D)Tamil
E)Khmer

Question 72

The Philippines

A)is by far the wealthiest nation in Southeast Asia
B)has banned migration to other countries.
C)has the second highest PPP in Southeast Asia.
D)owes much of its lack of economic success to the crony capitalism and corruption of Ferdinand Marcos.
E)has a communist economic system.

Question 73

What country has Vietnam emulated as it works to improve its economy?

A)India
B)Japan
C)China
D)South Korea
E)United States

Question 74

Which two nations in the region have the highest GNI per capita?

A)Thailand and Laos
B)Burma and Malaysia
C)Singapore and Brunei
D)Indonesia and the Philippines
E)Vietnam and Cambodia

Question 75

Thailand has the dubious distinction of being one of the world's centers for this illicit activity.

A)prostitution
B)money laundering
C)arms trading
D)gambling
E)opium growing

Question 76

Which statement best describes the economy and political system in Singapore?

A)Singapore suffers from corruption due to its dictatorial regime.
B)The political system and economy is molded on that of the United States, of which Singapore was once a colony.
C)Singapore has a somewhat authoritarian government which curtails certain civil liberties, but has resulted in a corruption-free society that embraces capitalism and has high standards of living.
D)The government of Singapore is overtly democratic which has attracted political activists across the region from nations which are far more repressive.
E)The government of Singapore is extremely repressive and the result is a stagnant economy.

Question 77

Why was Indonesia so poor when it gained its independence from the Dutch in 1949?

A)It suffered several years of drought and famine.
B)Indonesia had no marketable products.
C)Civil war drained resources and stifled manufacturing.
D)Indonesia had accumulated high levels of international debt.
E)The Dutch had used Indonesia largely for its tropical crops and invested little in transportation, health, or education in the region.

Question 78

What do the cities of Pattaya, Thailand and Angeles City, Philippines have in common?

A)They are mining towns.
B)They are known for prostitution.
C)They are national capitals
D)They are free trade zones.
E)They are the home of casino gambling.

Question 79

What Muslim people of western Sumatra live in what cultural anthropologists deem a "modern matriarchy" where women have a great deal of autonomy over their households?

A)Balinese
B)Aceh
C)Minangkabau
D)Malays
E)Jemaah Islamiyah

Question 80

In which mainland nation of Southeast Asia has coffee become a growing export commodity?

A)Thailand
B)Cambodia
C)Laos
D)Burma
E)Vietnam