Deck 9: India

Question 1

How does a representative get elected to the House of the People?

A) winning the plurality of the vote on the first ballot in an SMD
B) winning a required majority of the vote on the first ballot in an SMD
C) winning a plurality of the vote on the first ballot and a majority on the second in an SMD
D) being on the party ballot that wins a high enough proportion of the vote in an MMD

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following has been a result of greater reliance on coalition governments?

A) increased policy influence by the prime minister
B) more frequent declarations of presidential rule
C) weakened regional parties
D) devolution of power to regional parties and states

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The Indian constitutional measure that allows the Center to oust a state government and assert direct rule of that state is called

A) federal mandate.
B) martial law.
C) federal injunction.
D) presidential rule.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following statements about India's House of the People is accurate?

A) It is the weaker of the two legislative houses.
B) It represents India's 29 states and seven territories.
C) Each representative in the chamber serves roughly 2 million people.
D) Most of its members are elected to fixed six-year terms.

Question 5

Which prime minister declared emergency rule in 1975?

A) Mohandas K.Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Indira Gandhi
D) Manmohan Singh

Question 6

Which of the following statements about India's state governments is accurate?

A) Indian states are typically divided along linguistic,ethnic,or religious lines,which helps fuel calls for greater devolution.
B) States control most of their public policies involving health,security,and education but have little control over economic development policy.
C) The chief minister of each state is appointed by India's president,although appointments are subject to each state legislature's approval.
D) Most state legislatures are bicameral,mimicking the structure of the federal legislature.

Question 7

Partition in India

A) granted Muslims the right of abode.
B) established federalism upon independence.
C) established a bicameral legislature.
D) created the states of East Pakistan,West Pakistan,and India.

Question 8

India's Sepoy Mutiny pitted

A) the East India Company against British colonial troops.
B) British colonial troops against British officers.
C) Hindu conscripts against Muslim conscripts.
D) Hindu and Muslim conscripts against British colonial troops.

Question 9

The western Indian state in which Hindu retaliatory violence killed thousands of Muslims in 2002 is

A) Amritsar.
B) Ayodhya.
C) Gujarat.
D) Delhi.

Question 10

In which of the following ways does presidential rule differ from emergency rule?

A) Presidential rule is more likely to be used during international conflicts than during domestic ones.
B) Presidential rule is used only with respect to states,not with respect to the country as a whole.
C) Presidential rule is more of an economic tool than a tool of governance.
D) Presidential rule is more controversial in its use than emergency rule.

Question 11

The region that lies between India and Pakistan and is claimed by both is

A) Bengal.
B) Jammu and Kashmir.
C) Kerala.
D) Gujarat.

Question 12

In which of the following ways does the Council of States differ from the House of the People?

A) It has greater policy influence over bills that raise revenue.
B) It holds less political influence over the cabinet.
C) It has the right to introduce legislation.
D) It can force the prime minister from office with a two-thirds vote.

Question 13

How did Rajiv Gandhi's policies differ from those of his mother,Indira Gandhi?

A) He proved more committed to economic liberalization.
B) He proved more willing to declare martial law in the face of public protest.
C) He demonstrated a greater affinity-and success-for tackling India's ethnic and social tensions.
D) He associated himself more with the poorer classes through populist campaigns.

Question 14

How did the incoming 2014 BJP government address the problem of rape in India?

A) It blamed the problem on a culture of promiscuity.
B) It argued that most accused of rape are judged too harshly.
C) It promised zero tolerance for violence against women.
D) It sought the help of international bodies,requesting that UN agencies come into India and help establish special anti-violence-against-women programs.

Question 15

India's Green Revolution

A) introduced enhanced crops and cropping methods in the 1960s and 1970s.
B) promises to halve India's carbon emissions by 2050.
C) pitted Muslims against Hindus in a nineteenth-century civil war.
D) pitted Communists against nationalists in a civil war following independence.

Question 16

Sikhism shares the beliefs of

A) Hinduism and Buddhism.
B) Islam and Jainism.
C) Islam and Buddhism.
D) Hinduism and Islam.

Question 17

Which of the following statements about recent Indian foreign policy is accurate?

A) India's request for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council has prompted vocal opposition from both the United States and China.
B) Pakistani-Indian relations have improved over the last decade after Pakistan renounced the use of terrorist groups to fight as proxies in the dispute over Kashmir.
C) India signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2008 at the request of the United States.
D) Economic and nuclear cooperation between India and the United States has increased dramatically over the last two decades.

Question 18

The Indian National Congress led the anticolonial movement in India with which of the following organizations?

A) Muslim League
B) Rajistan Resistance
C) Hindu Alliance
D) Raj Movement

Question 19

The most significant trend in recent national elections in India has been the growing dominance of

A) the Indian Communist Party.
B) independent politicians.
C) coalition governments.
D) the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Question 20

The nabob game in India allowed British merchants to plunder Indian wealth and resources by

A) investing in Indian oil fields.
B) playing the Spanish off of the Portuguese.
C) setting up puppet governorships.
D) encouraging opium addiction.

Question 21

The Indian state of Kerala's high female literacy rates and low fertility rates are largely the result of

A) socialist state policies in education,health care,and land reform.
B) a coalition government between Muslim and Hindu leaders.
C) neoliberal economic policies.
D) the influence of a legacy British colonial government.

Question 22

Explain the caste system and its influence on Indian society.How did British colonialism use the caste system and what were the effects after independence?

Question 23

Which of the following statements about the development of India's economy is accurate?

A) Efforts to transition from import substitution industrialization and toward social-democratic policies began in the 1980s and came into full swing in the 1990s.
B) Stamping out corruption and protectionism as barriers to economic growth is one of the major successes of the 1990s reform effort.
C) The license raj has only acquired more complexity and red tape in recent years,and will soon force the Indian National Congress to address a reform effort.
D) China's faster economic growth is credited in part to slower population growth than that of India,as well as to better education.

Question 24

What is the modern legacy of the ancient patterns of division and settlement between Indo-Aryans and the Dravidians in India?

Question 25

Identify and discuss three primary obstacles to economic development in India.

Question 26

Discuss the several distinct advantages India brought to the endeavor of democratization.

Question 27

Explain how the one-party dominance of the INC came to be and what gave way to rule by coalition government since the early 1990s.

Question 28

Which of the following statements about the Aam Aadmi ("Common Man's") Party (AAP) and the fight against corruption is accurate?

A) The anticorruption populist movement began in large part as a result of several scandals committed under the BJP single-party rule that replaced a string of more transparent coalition governments.
B) Although the watchdog bill advocated by the AAP was eventually passed,it was far inferior to the version desired by civil activists.
C) The AAP ultimately had much better success in national elections than in regional parliamentary elections.
D) The AAP only lasted 49 days in office before being voted out in early elections.

Question 29

Naxalism refers to a

A) fusion of Buddhist and Hindu beliefs.
B) high caste ranking.
C) Maoist insurgency.
D) Hindu ascetic movement.

Question 30

Hindutva is championed primarily by the

A) Bharatiya Janata Party.
B) Communist Party of India.
C) Samajwadi Party.
D) Indian National Congress.