Deck 7: South Asia

Question 1

An unresolved boundary dispute in South Asia pertains to

A) Sri Lanka
B) The Maldives
C) Kashmir
D) Nepal

Answer 1

Kashmir

Question 2

The early culture in the Indus River valley was the

A) Akkadian
B) Harappan
C) Arabic
D) Taliban

Answer 2

Harappan

Question 3

Which of the following is true about Buddhism?

A) Buddha was born a Hindu.
B) Buddha accepted all the Hindu gods.
C) Buddha believed that the caste order should be perpetuated.
D) Buddhism arose in the 1000s A. D.

Answer 3

Buddha was born a Hindu.

Question 4

The dominant people in southern Afghanistan are the

A) Tamils
B) Tajiks
C) Urdus
D) Pashtuns

Question 5

As a result of trade patterns in medieval times, the Maldives are

A) Christian
B) Muslim
C) Hindu
D) Buddhist

Question 6

Which of the following was not an early trading post of the British East India Company?

A) Mumbai
B) Chennai
C) Delhi
D) Kolkata

Question 7

The main product that brought India into the global economy in the late 1800s was

A) cotton
B) gold
C) steel
D) rice

Question 8

The _________ crop was neglected in colonial Ceylon.

A) tea
B) rice
C) wheat
D) vegetable

Question 9

The leader who conducted a nonviolent campaign for Indian independence in the 1900s was

A) Buddha
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Mujahideen

Question 10

The sacred river to the Hindus is the

A) Brahmaputra
B) Ganges
C) Godavari
D) Indus

Question 11

Deposits of sand, gravel, and soil by rivers are called

A) loess
B) badlands
C) estuaries
D) alluvial fans

Question 12

Badlands topography is caused by

A) wind
B) water
C) ice
D) insects

Question 13

For most South Asians, the critical resource is

A) water
B) petroleum
C) gold
D) iron ore

Question 14

The most common source of irrigation water in India is

A) reservoirs
B) canals
C) tanks
D) desalination plants

Question 15

Which of the following was not a part of India's economic policy immediately after independence?

A) self-sufficiency
B) high tariffs
C) export taxes
D) tax breaks for foreign investors

Question 16

In population, India ranks _________ in the world.

A) first
B) second
C) third
D) fourth

Question 17

The people formerly called "untouchables" in the Indian caste system are now referred to
As

A) burakamin
B) scheduled castes and tribes
C) underclass
D) working class

Question 18

The common language for communication among various states in India is

A) English
B) French
C) Portuguese
D) Spanish

Question 19

The economic policies of India's first prime minister included

A) transfer of land from the aristocracy to the peasants
B) making India an almost self-sufficient industrial power
C) subsidizing greater food production
D) transfer of land from the aristocracy to the peasants and making India an almost self-sufficient industrial power

Question 20

A major failure under Indira and Rajiv Gandhi's rule was

A) There were major famines.
B) India failed to open to world economic forces.
C) Repeated elections and internal subsidies increased the country's debt.
D) There were no factories.

Question 21

The main beneficiaries of the structural adjustments after 1991 included all of the following except

A) farmers
B) the middle class
C) multinational corporations
D) overseas Indian investors

Question 22

The Congress Party in India is dominated by the

A) Kshatriyas
B) Vaishayas
C) Brahmins
D) Jatis

Question 23

The number of languages spoken in India is over

A) 1600
B) 2000
C) 3500
D) 4200

Question 24

In India as a whole, there are ________ males for 100 females.

A) 95
B) 100
C) 101
D) 107

Question 25

The union government's ministries are controlled by

A) elite upper caste groups
B) scheduled castes
C) Kshastriyas
D) farmers

Question 26

Most of India's agricultural exports go to

A) the United States
B) Britain
C) Japan
D) The Persian Gulf region

Question 27

The crop of the Assam Hills is

A) rice
B) wheat
C) tea
D) sugar

Question 28

The crop of the western margins of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta is

A) jute
B) tea
C) cotton
D) rice

Question 29

The Kanpur area specializes in manufacturing

A) automobiles
B) brassware
C) tanned leather
D) saris

Question 30

Coir is made from

A) cottonwood trees
B) hemp
C) jute
D) coconuts

Question 31

The center of India's high-tech industry is

A) Hyderabad
B) Bangalore
C) Kerala
D) Bengal

Question 32

Bangladesh's economic development was minimal until the

A) 1890s
B) 1920s
C) 1950s
D) 1970s

Question 33

Bangladesh has expanded its farmland by

A) irrigating deserts
B) filling in its seacoast
C) occupying and diking newly deposited alluvium in the delta
D) demolishing urban buildings

Question 34

The chief commercial crop of Pakistan is

A) cotton
B) jute
C) dates
D) sugar

Question 35

Loans from the Grameen Bank are available for all of the following except

A) manufacturing
B) home purchases
C) storage
D) marketing

Question 36

Of the mountain and island countries, the only one that is dominantly Hindu is

A) Sri Lanka
B) Bhutan
C) Nepal
D) Maldives

Question 37

The main export crop of the Maldives is

A) cotton
B) tea
C) tuna fish
D) coconuts

Question 38

A crop that replaced wheat in Afghanistan in the 1990s, leaving city dwellers hungry, was

A) cotton
B) hemp
C) opium
D) hay

Question 39

The purpose of the Mahakali project in Nepal is to

A) build dams
B) build roads
C) educate children
D) treat disease

Question 40

The main reason for the break-up of British India in 1947 was

A) Economic
B) Religious
C) Language
D) Cultural

Question 41

Which of the following associations between countries and their capitals is incorrect

A) India/Mumbai
B) Bangladesh/Dhaka
C) Afghanistan/Kabul
D) Sri Lanka/Colombo

Question 42

Which of the following countries does not border India

A) Myanmar (Burma)
B) Nepal
C) Bangladesh
D) Afghanistan

Question 43

In 2010 India's total GDP was __________ in the world.

A) Fifth
B) Fourth
C) Second
D) Sixth

Question 44

There are many differences between Pakistan and Bangladesh with the following exception

A) Language
B) Religion
C) Government
D) Physical geography

Question 45

All were prominent figures in India except

A) Indira Gandhi
B) Benazir Bhutto
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) Nehru

Question 46

The highest caste in the caste order is the farmers.

Question 47

The main railroads in the British Indian Empire were built to connect Indian villages to each other.

Question 48

Most of the rainfall in South Asia comes in winter.

Question 49

In the summer, storms similar to hurricanes and typhoons form in the Bay of Bengal.

Question 50

The plate fragment that is peninsular India is tilted so that the eastern side (the Eastern Ghats) is the highest part.

Question 51

The chemicals needed by the Green Revolution have polluted India's environment.

Question 52

India was forced to join the global economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Question 53

The number of states in India has remained the same since independence.

Question 54

An expanding industry in Bangladesh is garment manufacture.

Question 55

Sri Lanka has a diversified industrial base.

Question 56

India is a meat exporter.

Question 57

Bhutan encourages tourism.

Question 58

Economic development in the mountain countries is hampered by physical and political isolation and by internal conflicts.

Question 59

Before 1992, Afghanistan had over 200 factories.

Question 60

The Maldives face drowning by a rising ocean level as global warming proceeds.

Question 61

In South Asia both drought and flooding cause major problems.

Question 62

South Asia is a peninsula and because of this they rarely face problems with air pollution.

Question 63

Benefits from the Green Revolution were geographically and socially uneven.

Question 64

India has a very active movie industry.

Question 65

Sri Lanka's government is dominated by the Sikh's.

Question 66

The mutiny by the ___________ troops in 1857 led to the establishment of the British Indian Empire.

Question 67

The British set up __________ to grow tea, rubber, and coconuts on Ceylon.

Question 68

Afghanistan was set up by the British in the late 1800s to be a _____________ between the British Indian Empire and the expanding Russian empire.

Question 69

Many invasions from the northwest came to South Asia through the _________ Pass.

Question 70

After 1979 the ________________ fought troops of the Soviet Union and then each other for control of Afghanistan.

Question 71

Buddhism was founded in the ________________________ in the 500s B. C.

Question 72

The dark-skinned people of southern India are called _______________________.

Question 73

One of the world's major arid regions is found in northwestern South Asia and is called_____________________________________.

Question 74

The huge delta that makes up much of Bangladesh is made up of the following two major rivers ____________ and ______________________.

Question 75

Sri Lanka used to be known as _____________________.

Question 76

A terrorist group in Sri Lanka fighting for what they saw as their minority rights and building links with foreign terrorist organizations are known as _____________________.