Deck 22: China and India

Question 1

The leader of the Guomindang,or Nationalists,after 1928 was ________.

A) Chiang Kai-shek
B) Sun Yat-sen
C) Mao Zedong
D) Deng Xiaoping

Answer 1

Chiang Kai-shek

Question 2

Which of these was India's great poet?

A) Subhas Chandra Bose
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Mohammed Ali Jinnah
D) Indira Gandhi

Answer 2

Rabindranath Tagore

Question 3

China had about ________ people in 1900.

A) 40 billion
B) 4 billion
C) 40 million
D) 400 million

Answer 3

400 million

Question 4

Sun Yat-sen was leader of the ________.

A) Chinese Communist Party
B) Taiping Rebellion
C) Guomindang
D) Yuan dynasty

Question 5

The Great Leap Forward was a plan for rapid ________.

A) agrarian reform
B) urbanization
C) industrialization
D) military build up

Question 6

Gandhi's term for militant nonviolence was ________.

A) harijan
B) ashram
C) satyagraha
D) dalit

Question 7

Which of these Indian men was the preeminent leader of the independence movement?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Mohandas Gandhi
C) Rabindranath Tagore
D) Mohammed Ali Jinnah

Question 8

Mao Zedong's first capital was at ________.

A) Yan'an
B) Chang'an
C) Beijing
D) Luoyang

Question 9

The Indian National Congress was established in what decade?

A) 1920s
B) 1940s
C) 1900s
D) 1880s

Question 10

The "Little Red Book" was composed of quotations from ________.

A) Deng Xiaoping
B) Chiang Kai-shek
C) Mao Zedong
D) Sun Yat-sen

Question 11

The principle of ahimsa means ________.

A) "resistance"
B) "truth"
C) "freedom"
D) "nonviolence"

Question 12

In 1949,China's population was almost ________ percent urban.

A) 28
B) 41
C) 39
D) 11

Question 13

The first prime minister of India after independence was ________.

A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
D) Mohammed Ali Jinnah

Question 14

The policy of swadeshi advocated ________.

A) buying things produced by one's country
B) democracy
C) nonviolent protest
D) inter-faith cooperation

Question 15

Which of these was launched by Mao Zedong in 1966?

A) the Long March
B) the Cultural Revolution
C) the Chinese communist revolution
D) the Great Leap Forward

Question 16

The prominent Muslim leader of Indian independence and leader of the Muslim League was ________.

A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Subhas Chandra Bose
C) Mohammed Ali Jinnah
D) Mohandas Gandhi

Question 17

B.R.Ambedkar is best known as an advocate of India's________.

A) Hindus
B) Jains
C) women
D) untouchables

Question 18

The leader of China's communists from 1945 to 1976 was ________.

A) Chiang Kai-shek
B) Mao Zedong
C) Yuan Shihkai
D) Deng Xiaoping

Question 19

Which of these terms was applied to untouchables by Gandhi?

A) harijan
B) ashram
C) dalit
D) agraha

Question 20

Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge in ________.

A) Cambodia
B) Vietnam
C) China
D) India

Question 21

The American desire to keep China out of the UN is best seen as part of ________.

A) anti-Asian sentiment in the US
B) the Korean War
C) American trade policies
D) the Cold War

Question 22

China's civil war can be characterized as ________.

A) long and bloody
B) short and uneventful
C) short but extremely fierce
D) long but essentially a cold war

Question 23

In the late 1940s,the economic paths of China and India ________.

A) were very different
B) diverged
C) followed similar paths
D) reversed

Question 24

The Great Leap Forward can be characterized as a(n)________.

A) resounding success
B) expensive failure
C) moderate success
D) triumph of Marxist ideology

Question 25

Gandhi's satyagraha drew on ________ traditions.

A) Buddhist
B) Indian
C) Muslim
D) Mughal

Question 26

For Gandhi,the spinning wheel represented ________.

A) Hindu traditions
B) British rule
C) Indian independence
D) technological advancement

Question 27

India's "white revolution" concerned what industry?

A) steel
B) salt
C) textiles
D) dairy

Question 28

Mao chose to base his revolution on the peasantry because ________.

A) China's peasants were traditionally radical
B) such a move followed Marx's model
C) famine had radicalized rural laborers
D) China was predominantly rural

Question 29

The Chinese Communist Party was ________ women's rights.

A) hostile to any expansion of
B) silent on the subject of
C) radically progressive on
D) generally supportive of

Question 30

Which of these shares a border with Pakistan and India and is claimed by both?

A) Bangladesh
B) Nepal
C) Sri Lanka
D) Kashmir

Question 31

The goal of Chiang Kai-shek's scorched-earth policy was to ________.

A) support industrialization
B) improve agricultural yields
C) starve the communists
D) provoke a backlash against their enemies

Question 32

In communist China,technology and industry were held back by the privileged position of ________.

A) the rural world
B) administrators
C) merchants
D) the Guomindang

Question 33

In 1947,India was partitioned into India and ________.

A) Bangladesh
B) Pakistan
C) Sri Lanka
D) Kashmir

Question 34

The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a ________ Mao's earlier policies.

A) radical shift from
B) softening of
C) move to abandon
D) harsh return to

Question 35

The Yan'an Soviet can be characterized as ________.

A) formed of intelligentsia
B) agrarian and bare bones
C) sophisticated
D) well funded

Question 36

The policy of swadeshi can be considered the ________ of Hind Swaraj.

A) economic basis
B) nationalist ideology
C) religious underpinning
D) political aspect

Question 37

In the map "World population distribution," the population density of India and China appear ________.

A) different
B) very similar
C) identical
D) opposite

Question 38

Which of these leaders was premier of India for most of the period from 1967 to 1984?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Mohandas Gandhi
C) Indira Gandhi
D) Benazir Bhutto

Question 39

Looking at the map "The communist revolution in China," by 1945,communist control in China was ________.

A) complete
B) patchy
C) nonexistent
D) nearly complete

Question 40

In 2000,about ________ percent of Indians worked in industry.

A) 21
B) 31
C) 11
D) 1

Question 41

Which of these made the Pakistan of 1947 unsustainable?

A) It lacked a religious majority.
B) It held India's historic heartland.
C) It was India's poorest state.
D) It was divided geographically.

Question 42

Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohammed Ali Jinnah represent ________.

A) the Indian National Congress
B) Mughal India
C) Indian independence
D) partition

Question 43

What were the most important factors leading to the communist victory in China?

Question 44

Indira Gandhi illustrates the long Indian tradition of ________.

A) female rule
B) lineage
C) military rule
D) joint political and religious authority

Question 45

In the context of millennia of Indian history,why was India unified in the twentieth century?

Question 46

India's green revolution was a solution to what Indian problem?

A) water pollution
B) urban overcrowding
C) rural population decline
D) starvation

Question 47

How did Mao's political ideas evolve after the victory of 1949?

Question 48

Like Russia,China faced the conundrum of implementing ________.

A) a proletariat revolution in a largely rural country
B) agrarian reform in an industrialized nation
C) a social revolution in a country with few class distinctions
D) a revolution in the midst of a civil war

Question 49

Gandhi's salt march was an attack on ________.

A) British beliefs
B) neocolonialism
C) India's backwards industry
D) religious traditions

Question 50

Was partition inevitable?

Question 51

Gandhi's leadership can be said to have reversed the British policy of ________.

A) suppressing native Indian religions
B) divide and conquer
C) developing trade with India
D) working with India's regional leaders

Question 52

In terms of education,India today can be characterized as ________.

A) backwards
B) lopsided
C) egalitarian
D) advanced

Question 53

What do you consider the most striking similarities between China and India around 1945?

Question 54

Looking at the map "The communist revolution in China," what was accomplished by the Long March?

A) The Guomindang lost its hold of the Chinese capital.
B) The communists were able to consolidate their power base.
C) The Japanese were driven from China.
D) The communists gained their first power base.

Question 55

In the context of women in Indian politics,Indira Gandhi was ________ during her period as prime minister.

A) not surprising
B) an anomaly
C) unusual
D) typical