Deck 10: The East Asian Realm

Question 1

The leader who took over in China following the struggle after Mao's death was

A) Deng Xiaoping.
B) Kim Jong Il.
C) Xi Jinping.
D) Yao Ming.
E) Hu Jintao.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Two former colonial entities that were reunited with China during the late 1990s are .

A) Vietnam and Tibet
B) Macau and Shenzhen
C) Hong Kong and Shenzhen
D) Hong Kong and Guangdong
E) Macau and Hong Kong

Answer 2

E

Question 3

The Chinese city containing the largest population is ________________.

A) Beijing
B) Hong Kong
C) Guangzhou
D) Shenzhen
E) Shanghai

Answer 3

E

Question 4

The southernmost of China's three great rivers is the _______________.

A) Huang He
B) Chang-Yangzi
C) Xi/Pearl
D) Liao
E) Amur

Question 5

The former Portuguese colony that is now a Special Administrative Region (SAR)is ________.

A) Macau
B) Shenzhen
C) Guangdong
D) Taiwan
E) Hong Kong

Question 6

In comparing climates of the United States with those in China,which of the following is INCORRECT?

A) Japan exhibits both C and A climates.
B) The United States has a larger area of C climates than those of China.
C) In the United States C climates reach farther north than do C climates in China.
D) China has more desert territory under desert climate than the United States.
E) The Korean Peninsula exhibits D climates in its north.

Question 7

Xianggang _________________.

A) is the Chinese name for Tibet
B) is now directly connected by high-speed rail to Xinjiang
C) is the capital city of Taiwan
D) has its capital at Lhasa
E) is the Chinese name for Hong Kong

Question 8

The main river serving the hinterland of Shanghai is the __________ River.

A) Xi/Pearl
B) Huang He
C) Chang-Yangzi
D) Amur
E) Yellow

Question 9

Figure 9-7 shows that the most widely spoken languages in the northernmost parts of East Asia belong to this language family:

A) Sino-Tibetan
B) Han Chinese
C) Altaic
D) Austro-Asiatic
E) Indo-European

Question 10

China's current population is closest to _______________.

A) 400 million
B) 800 million
C) 1.1 billion
D) 1.4 billion
E) 2.1 billion

Question 11

The country of the "people of Han" is_____.

A) Mongolia
B) China
C) Japan
D) Korea
E) Tibet

Question 12

Which of the following is the Chinese name for Tibet?

A) Pudong
B) Xian
C) Xinjiang
D) Xizang
E) Hainan

Question 13

Mao Zedong's proclamation marking the birth of the People's Republic of China occurred in

A) 1911.
B) 1925.
C) 1949.
D) 1976.
E) 1997.

Question 14

Taiwan was at one time a colony of ______________.

A) Russia
B) the United States
C) Japan
D) the Netherlands
E) Britain

Question 15

Which river flows through Guangdong Province?

A) Huang He
B) Yangzi
C) Yellow
D) Chang Jiang
E) Pearl

Question 16

There is a dispute among China,Japan,and Taiwan over these islands in the East China Sea:

A) Kurile Islands
B) Okinawa Islands
C) Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands
D) Ryukyu Islands
E) the Philippine Islands

Question 17

Which of the following Chinese cities is not a Shi?

A) Beijing
B) Chongqing
C) Shanghai
D) Chengdu
E) Tianjin

Question 18

The Huang He _______________.

A) drains the Xi/Pearl River Basin
B) flows into the South China Sea
C) almost encircles the Ordos Desert
D) flows from the Loess Plateau eastward toward its mouth at Shanghai
E) originates in the Sichuan Basin

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT one of China's Autonomous Regions?

A) Xizang
B) Xinjiang
C) Chongqing
D) Inner Mongolia
E) Guangxi Zhuang

Question 20

Which of the following is NOT considered an Asian Tiger?

A) Hong Kong
B) South Korea
C) North Korea
D) Taiwan
E) Singapore

Question 21

Which of these statements about Mongolia is INCORRECT?

A) It is considered to be a buffer state.
B) It wishes to be unified with China.
C) It is landlocked.
D) It has a population of only about 3 million.
E) It was once a domain of a powerful nomadic people who challenged both Russia and China.

Question 22

Which of the following lies just across the former Chinese land border from Hong Kong?

A) Macau
B) Canton
C) Chang-Yangzi Delta
D) Pudong
E) Shenzhen

Question 23

The Xinjiang Autonomous region __________________.

A) is the home of the Uyghur people
B) is located south of Tibet
C) contains the Gobi Desert
D) lies in northeast China
E) is another name for Xizang

Question 24

The outcome of the Korean War in the 1950s was _______________.

A) the defeat of North Korea, which was returned to the control of Japan
B) victory for the South, which soon became communist
C) a military stalemate resulting in the continued division of the country
D) a short pause, followed by renewed war that still drags on to this day
E) the unification of the two Koreas

Question 25

Japan's largest and main island,containing the Japanese capital and almost all of its core area,is _______________.

A) Kyushu
B) Honshu
C) Shikoku
D) Hokkaido
E) Sakhalin

Question 26

According to Figure 9-13,which of these locations was not designated as an SEZ (Special Economic Zone)?

A) Beijing
B) Pudong
C) Shenzhen
D) Hainan Island
E) Binhai New Area

Question 27

Which of the following has NOT been important in the development of Shenzhen as an SEZ?

A) proximity to Hong Kong
B) the socialist economic principles applied by the Chinese government to its development
C) state-of-the-art port facilities
D) investment of Overseas Chinese in its development
E) the fastest urban growth rate in human history

Question 28

The language spoken in Hong Kong and much of the Pearl River Delta is ______.

A) Han Chinese (Mandarin)
B) Tibetan
C) Yue (Cantonese)
D) Manchu (Tungus)
E) Turkic (Uyghur)

Question 29

 Which of these Special Economic Zones is located across the Huangpu River from central Shanghai?

A) Xiamen
B) Pudong
C) Shenzhen
D) Shantou
E) Hainan Island

Question 30

According to Figure 9-15,which of the following provinces is the wealthiest?

A) Beijing
B) Guangdong
C) Sichuan
D) Hunan
E) Yunnan

Question 31

Which of the following is NOT a Special Economic Zone?

A) Shenzhen
B) Hainan Island
C) Xiamen
D) Hong Kong
E) Shantou

Question 32

Japan's natural landscapes_________________.

A) resemble those of populous South Asia: wide alluvial valleys crowded by millions of farmers, plateau country elsewhere
B) being tropical, consist of dense stands of forest and clearings of farmland
C) are mountainous and hilly, with flat land at a premium
D) consist of all the usual landforms except mountains, which rarely occur in the Japanese archipelago
E) delayed Japan's modernization by inhibiting contact and communications with the Asian mainland

Question 33

The most recent Special Economic Zone (SEZ)created by the Chinese government is _____________.

A) Pudong
B) Binhai
C) Xiamen
D) Chongqing
E) Zhuhai

Question 34

Examine Figure 9-20 to determine which of the following statements is NOT true of Korea.

A) North Korea is more mountainous than South Korea.
B) South Korea has more cities than North Korea.
C) Most of the rice-producing areas are in South Korea.
D) The capital cities of both North and South Korea are port cities.
E) Most of the cease-fire line runs slightly north of 38° North latitude.

Question 35

South Korea's growth has resulted from an economic system described as ________________.

A) communism
B) laissez-faire capitalism
C) Pacific Rim globalization
D) state capitalism
E) socialism

Question 36

North and South Korea may be said to be in a situation of _______________.

A) joint state capitalism
B) high-mass-consumption economic development
C) areal functional specialization
D) regional complementarity
E) geographic inertia

Question 37

Guangdong Province faces the _________________.

A) Yellow Sea
B) Indian Ocean
C) Bohai Gulf
D) East Sea (Sea of Japan)
E) South China Sea

Question 38

Japan's population________________.

A) is expected to decline over the next half-century
B) is concentrated along the shore of the Sea of Japan (East Sea)
C) exhibits a low rate of literacy
D) is concentrated on Hokkaido and Shikoku
E) is reflective of a multicultural society

Question 39

Which of the following regions has been known as and is sometimes still called "Manchuria"?

A) Northeast China
B) Taiwan
C) North China Plain
D) Xinjiang
E) Red Basin of Sichuan

Question 40

The SEZ that is closest in proximity to Southeast Asia is ______.

A) Hainan
B) Pudong
C) Xizang
D) Binhai New Area
E) Shenzhen

Question 41

China's One-Child Policy was instituted during Mao's regime.

Question 42

Dry B climates dominate northern East Asia because of the region's distance from an ocean.

Question 43

Japan's leading region of urbanization and industry (as well as agriculture)is the _______________.

A) Kansai District
B) Kobe-Osaka-Kyoto region
C) Nagoya area
D) Kanto Plain
E) Kitakyushu conurbation

Question 44

China falls far short of producing all of its fossil fuel needs.

Question 45

China's population has many more females than males.

Question 46

According to Figure 9-11,Xizang (Tibet)is a province of China.

Question 47

The Yangzi River flows into the Pearl River Estuary.

Question 48

Hong Kong became a province of China in 1997.

Question 49

Japan's environment does not contain an area of B climate.

Question 50

Beijing,Tianjin,and Shanghai are three of China's largest cities.

Question 51

Japan's unique modernization pathway was most likely assisted by _________.

A) it being an island nation
B) its wealth of agricultural resources
C) its relative location to other industrialized countries
D) its homogeneous population
E) its proximity to China

Question 52

Japan's second-largest city,Osaka,is located in the __________ District.

A) Kanto
B) Nobi
C) Shikoku
D) Kansai
E) Hokkaido

Question 53

South Korea's climate is milder and wetter than North Korea's.

Question 54

China has more provinces than the United States has States.

Question 55

By 2100,Japan's current population of 128 million is expected to shrink to less than _____ million:

A) 50
B) 60
C) 95
D) 105
E) 120

Question 56

Taiwan is located off the mainland coast of ______________.

A) Russia
B) China
C) Korea
D) Mongolia
E) Japan

Question 57

According to Figure 9-6,it appears that China has the greatest number of nuclear power plants in East Asia.

Question 58

The Han Dynasty was China's formative period; ethnic Chinese still call themselves the "people of Han."

Question 59

Hong Kong was a former British colony.

Question 60

The area of Japan best situated to do business with Korea and China is _____________.

A) the Kansai District
B) the Kanto Plain
C) the Nobi Plain
D) the Tokaido (Tokyo-Hokkaido) Megalopolis
E) Kitakyushu

Question 61

Shenzhen has now ended its role as an SEZ since Hong Kong reunified with China in 1997.

Question 62

Japan became a dominant power in eastern Asia during the first half of the twentieth century.

Question 63

According to Figure 9-22,the straight-line distance between China and Taiwan,from Quanzhou to Hsinchu,is about 150 miles.

Question 64

The island of Hokkaido lies outside of Japan's core area.

Question 65

With the single exception of Kyoto,all primary and secondary cities of Japan lie on the coast.

Question 66

Japan's four largest islands are Honshu,Shikoku,Kyushu,and Sakhalin.

Question 67

North Korea contains numerous industrial raw materials; the resources of South Korea are decidedly more agricultural.

Question 68

The capital of Taiwan is Taipei.

Question 69

In China's SEZs,contract labor is not allowed.

Question 70

Japan's population continues to grow at a steady rate.

Question 71

Xinjiang and Xizang are two of the most densely populated regions of China.

Question 72

The Nobi Plain lies between the Kansai District and the Kanto Plain.

Question 73

The economies of North and South Korea are complementary,and both states would have much to gain by reunification.

Question 74

Taiwan was conquered by the Chinese communists in 1949.

Question 75

China's Shenzhen is a Special Economic Zone.

Question 76

The fortified political boundary separating the two Koreas has done little to halt trade and population movements between the two political entities.

Question 77

Mongolia is a classic example of a buffer state.

Question 78

Although the Communist Party controls the government of China,its economic policies are generally capitalist.

Question 79

North and South Korea are now in the process of reuniting into a single country.

Question 80

South Korea has developed under a socialist system since 1945.