Deck 8: East Asia

Question 1

Which of the following is the largest river in East Asia?

A)Chang Jiang
B)Mekong River
C)Zhu Jiang
D)Irawaddy
E)Huang He

Answer 1

E

Question 2

The Opium War allowed control of Hong Kong to go to:

A)United States
B)Great Britain
C)China
D)Japan
E)none of these

Answer 2

B

Question 3

________ was domesticated from wild species in more northerly subhumid regions of East Asia.

A)Rice
B)Tea
C)Millet
D)Wheat
E)none of these

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which dynasty extended the Chinese empire westward?

A)Han
B)Sui
C)Xia
D)Ming
E)none of these

Question 5

Which of the following western regions is mostly a mixture of steppe and semi-desert?

A)Tibetan Plateau
B)Inner Mongolia
C)Northwestern China
D)Manchuria
E)none of these

Question 6

What is silk?

A)synthetic fiber produced from cellulose or petroleum
B)a fine quality of cotton
C)a fine quality of wool
D)fiber produced by the caterpillar of a moth
E)none of these

Question 7

The Northern Regime in East Asia is:

A)subhumid
B)humid
C)semiarid
D)temperate
E)none of these

Question 8

Three of the most devastating floods in worldwide historical record have been along which river?

A)Xi
B)Mekong
C)Huang He
D)Ordos
E)Chang Jiang

Question 9

Seventy percent of Mongolia's exports are from which sector of the economy?

A)mining
B)services
C)manufacturing
D)farming
E)fishing

Question 10

Hong Kong was a ________ colony during most of the 19th and 20th centuries.

A)British
B)Japanese
C)American
D)Korean
E)Chinese

Question 11

The ________ in East Asia is humid and subtropical.

A)Northern Regime
B)Southern Regime
C)Western Regime
D)Eastern Regime
E)none of these

Question 12

What parallel was agreed to as the border between North Korea and South Korea?

A)28th parallel
B)38th parallel
C)48th parallel
D)A parallel is not the basis for the border between North Korea and South Korea.
E)none of these

Question 13

This country has the world's fifth-largest standing army.

A)China
B)North Korea
C)South Korea
D)Taiwan
E)Japan

Question 14

Which dynasty helped link the northern and southern regions of Inner China by the first in a series of Grand Canals?

A)Han
B)Sui
C)Xia
D)Ming
E)none of these

Question 15

The South China Sea,the East China Sea,and the Yellow Sea are part of what water body?

A)the Pacific Ocean
B)the Atlantic Ocean
C)the Indian Ocean
D)both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean
E)none of these

Question 16

What desert takes up a good portion of Mongolia?

A)Sahara
B)Gobi
C)Huang He
D)Loess
E)Thar

Question 17

Which of the following Outer China regions is dominated by rugged mountains with intermontane basins of needle-leaf forests,alpine meadows and marshes?

A)Tibetan Plateau
B)Inner Mongolia
C)Northwestern China
D)Pearl River delta
E)none of these

Question 18

The subhumid parts of East Asia are prone to:

A)stream erosion
B)flooding
C)earthquakes
D)stream erosion,flooding,earthquakes
E)none of these

Question 19

What country is the fastest-growing emitter of greenhouse gases in the world?

A)North Korea
B)Japan
C)South Korea
D)China
E)Taiwan

Question 20

The ________ is the dominant group in China.

A)Hui
B)Han
C)Manchu
D)Wu
E)none of these

Question 21

________ production helped foster rapid industrialization in Japan in the late 19th and early 20th century.

A)Rice
B)Silk
C)Fish
D)Wheat
E)none of these

Question 22

What is the primary function of the Japanese governmental agency,MITI?

A)promote trade and export production
B)promote and preserve Japanese culture
C)provide food and housing for the elderly
D)provide standards for education,especially higher education
E)none of these

Question 23

What is sericulture?

A)cultivation of wet rice
B)cultivation of bamboo
C)cultivation of silkworms
D)cultivation of tea
E)none of these

Question 24

Currently,the youngest head of state in the world is ________ of ________.

A)Kim Jong Il/North Korea
B)Kim Jong Il/South Korea
C)Kim Il Sung/North Korea
D)Kim Jong-un/North Korea
E)Kim Jong-up/South Korea

Question 25

The Daimyos were the Japanese ________ during feudalism.

A)nobility
B)barons
C)warriors
D)peasants
E)none of these

Question 26

The first leader of China under a Communist government was:

A)Mao Zedong
B)Chiang Kai-shek
C)Kim Il Sung
D)Sun Yat-Sen
E)Chou En-Lai

Question 27

The ________ was the first organized territorial state in China.

A)Qin dynasty
B)Xia dynasty
C)Shang dynasty
D)Ming dynasty
E)none of these

Question 28

The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of:

A)Confucianism
B)Shintoism
C)Tibetan Islam
D)Tibetan Hinduism
E)Tibetan Buddhism

Question 29

The second leader of the People's Republic of China,Deng Xiaoping,is most remembered for this policy change from the previous administration.

A)opened China to Western science,technology,and trade
B)gave independence to Taiwan
C)reinstated Marxist ideology as the basis for economic planning
D)closed China to foreigners
E)began the Cultural Revolution

Question 30

Which one of the following areas did Japan annex in 1895?

A)Russia
B)China
C)Taiwan
D)none of these
E)Russia,China,and Taiwan

Question 31

It is estimated that between 20 and 30 million people died from starvation and malnutrition-related diseases between 1959 and 1962 in this country.

A)Mongolia
B)China
C)Taiwan
D)Japan
E)South Korea

Question 32

Who became the leader of the Chinese Communist Party during the Chinese long march?

A)Sun Yat-Sen
B)Chiang Kai-shek
C)Mao Zedong
D)Chou En-Lai
E)none of these

Question 33

This country does not belong to the United Nations.

A)China
B)Taiwan
C)North Korea
D)Mongolia
E)South Korea

Question 34

Where are most of the Special Economic Zones in China located?

A)along the coast
B)deep in the interior
C)surrounding the capital
D)The Special Economic Zones have no particular geographic orientation.
E)none of these

Question 35

Which of the following is not considered an Asian Tiger?

A)North Korea
B)South Korea
C)Taiwan
D)Hong Kong
E)none of these

Question 36

Taiwan is claimed by this country.

A)China
B)South Korea
C)Hong Kong
D)Japan
E)the United States

Question 37

This country became involved in the Korean War when the U.S.military pushed the North Korean forces back to its borders.

A)China
B)Soviet Union
C)Mongolia
D)Vietnam
E)none of these

Question 38

After World War II,approximately how long did it take for Japan to return to its prewar economic levels of output?

A)5 years
B)10 years
C)15 years
D)Japan emerged from World War II with little reduction of output.
E)none of these

Question 39

What American president made a path-breaking visit to China in 1972 in an attempt to re-open China's relations with the Western world?

A)Richard Nixon
B)Gerald Ford
C)Jimmy Carter
D)George Bush
E)Ronald Reagan

Question 40

All of these countries are mostly urban,except:

A)China
B)Japan
C)South Korea
D)North Korea
E)Taiwan

Question 41

What is the new system of spelling Chinese words and names using the Latin alphabet of 26 letters called?

A)Wade-Giles system
B)Feng Shui system
C)Pinyin system
D)Falun Gong system
E)none of these

Question 42

Animism is widely practiced in China today.

Question 43

Japanese print cartoon books are called:

A)Anime
B)Manga
C)Pokemon
D)feng shui
E)hutongs

Question 44

The Shoguns were the Japanese warriors during the feudal period.

Question 45

The blanket of air pollution nearly 2 miles thick over parts of East Asia is called "loess."

Question 46

The majority of Xinjiang's population is:

A)Muslim
B)Hindu
C)Buddhist
D)Christian
E)none of these

Question 47

________ are Japanese business networks facilitated after World War II by the Japanese government in order to promote national recovery.

A)Keiretsu
B)Taiga
C)Zaibatsu
D)Daimyo
E)none of these

Question 48

China has offered to give Taiwan this political status if it rejoins the mainland under one government.

A)national capital
B)province
C)autonomous region
D)special administrative region
E)internal republic

Question 49

The Shang dynasty was the first unified Chinese empire.

Question 50

Hydraulic Civilizations are those that survive,thrive,and expand based on their ability to control water.

Question 51

Today,China has a majority urban population.

Question 52

The wolf is now extinct in Japan.

Question 53

This belief system is distinctly Japanese,and most of its followers are Japanese.

A)Daoism
B)Confucianism
C)Shinto
D)Animism
E)Daimyo

Question 54

In China,boys are considered more worthy than girls.

Question 55

The principal human impact in East Asia has been the clearing of land for farming.

Question 56

The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 measured 9.0-magnitude on the Richter scale.

Question 57

________ was a sustained attack on Chinese traditions and cultural practices.

A)The Long March
B)The Great Leap Forward
C)The Cultural Revolution
D)The Four Modernizations
E)none of these

Question 58

The enormous weight of the water in the Three Gorges Dam reservoir could trigger an earthquake in Central China.

Question 59

The belief that the physical attributes of places can be analyzed and manipulated to improve the flow of cosmic energy that binds all living things is called:

A)feng shui
B)Confucianism
C)Shintoism
D)pinyin
E)manga

Question 60

Most people in China speak this Chinese language.

A)Mandarin
B)Cantonese
C)Pinyin
D)Hui
E)Wu

Question 61

Confucianism deals with one god and an afterlife.

Question 62

China's One Child policy has led to the problems of spoiled children,who are often called "little emperors."

Question 63

Feng Shui is a world religion that is practiced primarily in East Asia.