Deck 11: The Southeast Asian Realm

Question 1

More than half of Southeast Asia's population lives in which two countries?

A) Indonesia and Vietnam
B) Indonesia and the Philippines
C) Vietnam and the Philippines
D) Malaysia and Myanmar
E) Indonesia and Cambodia

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following is not a fragmented state?

A) Malaysia
B) Indonesia
C) Thailand
D) The Philippines
E) East Timor

Answer 2

C

Question 3

An example of an "elongated state" is ___________.

A) Myanmar
B) Cambodia
C) Indonesia
D) Vietnam
E) Brunei

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Large population clusters in Southeast Asia exist in all but which of the following areas?

A) lower valleys of major rivers
B) deltas of major rivers
C) zones of plantation development in Malaysia
D) areas of volcanic soil in the islands
E) interior highland regions

Question 5

The nation ranking 4ᵗʰ in world population is ________________.

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

Question 6

Which of the following is INCORRECT?

A) Indonesia is this realm's "giant" country.
B) The Mekong River crosses five Southeast Asian countries.
C) Mainland Southeast Asia contains no dominant state among its five countries.
D) Southeast Asia can be considered a buffer zone.
E) Southeast Asia can be considered a shatter belt.

Question 7

Which Indonesian island is LEAST likely to experience a volcanic eruption?

A) Sumatera
B) Jawa
C) one of the Lesser Sunda Islands
D) Borneo
E) Bali

Question 8

The Southeast Asian country that best exhibits the shape of a protruded state is:

A) the Philippines
B) Cambodia
C) Myanmar
D) Vietnam
E) Indonesia

Question 9

The Southeast Asian state that is marked by a major territorial protrusion is _____________

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

Question 10

Southeast Asian physiography is dominated by _____________.

A) extensive plateaus
B) high relief
C) extensive flat plains
D) rolling hills
E) dry-environment landforms

Question 11

Southeast Asia,compared to the South Asian realm,is ______________.

A) less densely populated
B) more densely populated than India and possesses a much lower standard of living
C) very heavily urbanized, with sparse populations in the rural areas
D) entirely a remnant of Britain's East Indies colonial empire
E) much less affected by Chinese immigration

Question 12

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A) The Southeast Asian realm exhibits shatter belt characteristics.
B) Compared to neighboring realms, Southeast Asia has a comparatively low population density.
C) The major river valleys of mainland Southeast Asia are sparsely populated.
D) Southeast Asia is culturally fragmented.
E) All of the above are correct.

Question 13

Which of the following associations is INCORRECT?

A) Indonesia-Islam
B) the Philippines-Roman Catholicism
C) Thailand-Buddhism
D) Myanmar-Hinduism
E) Malaysia-Islam

Question 14

The Southeast Asia country that is most compact is _______________.

A) Cambodia
B) Vietnam
C) Indonesia
D) Laos
E) the Philippines

Question 15

Which country-river association is INCORRECT?

A) Myanmar-Irrawaddy
B) Thailand-Chao Phraya
C) Laos-Yellow
D) southern Vietnam-Mekong
E) northern Vietnam-Red

Question 16

Flowing a distance of 2600 miles,the so-called "Danube of Southeast Asia" is the ________ River.

A) Chao Phraya
B) Irrawaddy
C) Mekong
D) Red
E) Yangzi

Question 17

The ethnic group forming a significant part of the commercial class in Southeast Asia are the ___________________.

A) Indians
B) Japanese
C) Singaporeans
D) Thais
E) Chinese

Question 18

According to Figure 10-7,which country does not have a significant Chinese immigrant population?

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

Question 19

Agriculture in Southeast Asia is limited by _____________.

A) desert conditions
B) alluvial soils
C) generally infertile tropical soils
D) severe dietary restrictions caused by food taboos
E) all of the above

Question 20

According to Figure 10-6,the majority of people living in Thailand belong to this ethnic group:

A) Indo-Aryan
B) Chinese
C) Thai
D) Tibeto-Burman
E) Mon-Khmer

Question 21

In Myanmar,Thailand,and Cambodia,most of the people are adherents of _______________.

A) Buddhism
B) Hinduism
C) Islam
D) Roman Catholicism
E) the Muslim faith

Question 22

In 1965,_______ seceded from Malaysia to become an independent state in Southeast Asia.

A) Singapore
B) Hong Kong
C) Sarawak
D) East Timor
E) Borneo

Question 23

ASEAN includes all of the countries in Southeast Asia except _____________.

A) Brunei
B) East Timor
C) Vietnam
D) Laos
E) Myanmar

Question 24

Angkor Wat is located in which country?

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

Question 25

A country in Southeast Asia that remained,for the most part,an independent state throughout the colonial era was ______________.

A) Vietnam
B) Malaya
C) Borneo
D) Thailand
E) Burma

Question 26

Which country does NOT border Vietnam?

A) Laos
B) Thailand
C) Cambodia
D) the People's Republic of China
E) None of the above

Question 27

The Southeast Asian country that is still ruled by a communist regime is ____________.

A) Myanmar
B) Vietnam
C) Thailand
D) Singapore
E) Malaysia

Question 28

The Khmer Rouge killed as many as 2 million people in their attempt to refashion the society of _____________.

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

Question 29

The colony formerly known as the Dutch East Indies is now the country of _____________.

A) Indonesia
B) Thailand
C) the Philippines
D) Myanmar
E) East Timor

Question 30

Which of the following mother country-colony associations is INCORRECT?

A) the Netherlands-Indonesia
B) Spain-Thailand
C) France-Laos
D) Britain-Malaya
E) United States-the Philippines

Question 31

Which of the following is a former British colony?

A) Brunei
B) Thailand
C) Cambodia
D) the Philippines
E) East Timor

Question 32

Which of the following associations is CORRECT?

A) Thailand and Hanoi
B) Myanmar and Yangon
C) Cambodia and Kuala Lumpur
D) Laos and Manila
E) Vietnam and Bangkok

Question 33

Which of the following mother country-colony associations is INCORRECT?

A) Spain-the Philippines
B) Britain-Burma
C) the Netherlands-Brunei
D) France-Vietnam
E) Portugal-East Timor

Question 34

Which of the following countries once formed a colonial component of British India?

A) Singapore (Straits Settlement)
B) Sumatera (Sumatra)
C) Myanmar (Burma)
D) Malaysia (Malaya)
E) Thailand (Siam)

Question 35

 Vietnam today ranks among the top producers in the world for which of the following crops:

A) rice
B) coffee
C) tea
D) apples
E) soy beans

Question 36

Which of the following is considered to be Southeast Asia's most economically advanced and globally connected entity:

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

Question 37

Which of the following was never part of a colonial empire of Mainland Southeast Asia?

A) Tonkin
B) Siam
C) Cambodia
D) Laos
E) Cochin China

Question 38

Saigon is today named after the communist leader who forged modern Vietnam,a communist known as _______________

A) Viet Cong
B) Kim Il Sung
C) Ho Chi Minh
D) Dien Bien Phu
E) Pol Pot

Question 39

Which of the following islands was not colonized by the Dutch?

A) Jawa (Java)
B) Sumatera (Sumatra)
C) Borneo
D) Sulawesi (Celebes)
E) Luzon

Question 40

The area known as Annam is today a part of ______________

A) the Philippines
B) Vietnam
C) Myanmar
D) Thailand
E) Malaysia

Question 41

The now-ended policy of the Indonesian government to induce Jawanese to migrate to other islands was called: ___________________.

A) diversity-in-unity development
B) transmigration
C) transculturation
D) Jawanization
E) ethnic cleansing

Question 42

The majority of Indonesia's population is clustered on the island of ______________.

A) Sulawesi
B) Sumatera
C) Jawa
D) Kalimantan
E) Timor

Question 43

An archipelago is ________________.

A) a chain of islands
B) an elongated state
C) a protruded state
D) best exemplified by Laos
E) a divided state on the mainland

Question 44

The small oil-rich Islamic country of Insular Southeast Asia is ______________

A) Kalimantan
B) Papua
C) Brunei
D) Sulawesi
E) East Timor

Question 45

The two States of East Malaysia are ______________

A) Sarawak and Sabah
B) Borneo and Kalimantan
C) Singapore and Sumatera
D) Brunei and East Timor
E) Myanmar and Singapore

Question 46

_______ held onto eastern Timor well after the Dutch were ousted from the East Indies.

A) Portugal
B) France
C) Australia
D) the Netherlands
E) Japan

Question 47

The island of ________ is the largest and westernmost in Indonesia's archipelago.

A) Papua
B) Borneo
C) Sumatera
D) Luzon
E) Jawa

Question 48

Which of the following political entities is NOT located on the island of Borneo?

A) Kalimantan
B) Sarawak
C) East Timor
D) Brunei
E) Sabah

Question 49

Which of the following statements about Singapore is INCORRECT?

A) It is a British colony.
B) It has a predominantly Chinese population.
C) It was once a part of the Malaysian Federation.
D) It lies mainly on a small island.
E) It wishes to join Indonesia.

Question 50

The world's largest Muslim country in population size is _______________.

A) Bangladesh
B) Egypt
C) Pakistan
D) Indonesia
E) Saudi Arabia

Question 51

Which triad of countries is located on the Malay Peninsula?

A) Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
B) Malaysia, Thailand, and Myanmar
C) China, Vietnam, and Malaysia
D) Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei
E) Malaya, Indonesia, and Singapore

Question 52

The vast majority of Thailand's Muslim population lives in the _________________.

A) far north
B) Bangkok metropolitan area
C) border zone with Malaysia
D) Mekong River Delta
E) Golden Triangle

Question 53

Indonesia is a state located _________________.

A) on two major islands
B) on more than 17,000 islands
C) on both the Asian mainland and the island of Borneo
D) between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean
E) b and d above

Question 54

The ethnic group that accounts for over 75 percent of Singapore's population are the ___________.

A) Indians
B) Chinese
C) Indonesians
D) Siamese
E) Malays

Question 55

Which country in Southeast Asia is dominantly Roman Catholic today,a result of its colonial legacy?

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

Question 56

According to Figure 10-13,Thailand's core area is _____________.

A) near the border with Laos
B) centered on the capital of Bangkok
C) in the southern protrusion near the Malaysian border
D) in the Mekong River Delta
E) located where the borders of Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos converge

Question 57

A former Portuguese colony that is the newest state in Southeast Asia is______________.

A) Macau
B) Singapore
C) Brunei
D) Myanmar
E) East Timor

Question 58

The island of Insular Southeast Asia that can be characterized as a minicontinent is _____________.

A) Sulawesi
B) Borneo
C) Sumatera
D) Jawa
E) Singapore

Question 59

Southeast Asia contains one of the most important shipping channels,a choke point for the movement of Seaborne trade goods around the world. It is located between which two countries? 

A) Indonesia and Malaysia
B) Malaysia and Thailand
C) Indonesia and East Timor
D) yhe Philippines and Malaysia
E) Vietnam and China

Question 60

The Indonesian island of ________ borders the Strait of Malacca.

A) Sulawesi
B) Borneo
C) Sumatera
D) Luzon
E) Jawa

Question 61

The island of Singapore was formerly a British colony.

Question 62

The city-state commanding access to the strategic Strait of Malacca is Hong Kong.

Question 63

Dutch colonialism in its East Indies possessions eventually united across more than 17,000 islands to form a single state.

Question 64

The Philippines' last colonial master,which granted the country independence in 1946,was the United States.

Question 65

The total population of Southeast Asia is relatively modest compared to the populations of India and China.

Question 66

Cambodia is a good example of an elongated state.

Question 67

Laos is Southeast Asia's only landlocked country.

Question 68

The island of Jawa is one of the world's most intensively cultivated areas,owing to its rich volcanic soils.

Question 69

Although Mainland Southeast Asia contains a number of large cities,it is not heavily urbanized.

Question 70

The state that has unresolved issues with Australia concerning undersea oil reserves is _______________.

A) Thailand
B) Indonesia
C) East Timor
D) Papua New Guinea
E) Philippines

Question 71

Like Eastern Europe,Southeast Asia is a region of great cultural complexity that merits the label of shatter belt.

Question 72

French Indochina was the name of the French colonial stronghold in Southeast Asia.

Question 73

The United States acquired the Philippines from Japan at the beginning of World War II.

Question 74

The Muslim stronghold in the Philippines is located in __________________.

A) Luzon
B) the Visayan archipelago
C) the far southern islands
D) Borneo
E) metropolitan Manila

Question 75

The Khmer people constitute the ethnic majority of the population in Cambodia.

Question 76

Southeast Asia can be considered a buffer zone as well as a shatter belt.

Question 77

The two main islands in the Philippines are _____________________.

A) Mindanao and Luzon
B) Borneo and Visayan
C) Singapore and Cebu
D) Timor and Jawa
E) Sulawesi and Luzon

Question 78

Vietnam constitutes an elongated state.

Question 79

The term Malaysia refers only to those former British protectorates on the Southeast Asian mainland.

Question 80

The population of Southeast Asia tends to be evenly spread across the realm's fragmented land area.