Chapter 1 The Region and People Test Questions & Answers

Chapter 1

1. Mongolia is comprised primarily of ________.

a. mountains

b. river valleys

c. steppe

d. desert

2. Which of these forms a boundary between modern China and Russia?

a. the Ural Mountains

b. the Mecong River

c. the Yangzi River

d. the Amur River

3. Looking above at Map 1.1, which of these separates the heart of Mongolia from China?

a. the Gobi Desert

b. the Yellow River

c. the Himalayas

d. the Ordos Desert

4. Which of these best describes the loess that characterizes the Yellow River?

a. oxidized minerals

b. wind-borne soils

c. rocky beds

d. flood waters

5. The Grand Canal system links the ________ and ________ rivers.

a. Beihe; Yangzi

b. Yangzi; Yellow

c. Mecong; Yangzi

d. Salween; Mecong

6. Which of these best characterizes the monsoon system?

a. a region typified by tropical vegetation

b. periods of flooding caused by unusually high precipitation

c. a period of heavy rains followed by drought

d. regional wind patterns that shift seasonally

7. In most of East Asia, the winter months are ________.

a. dry

b. marked by tropical storms

c. hurricane season

d. warm and rainy

8. In general, China’s north has been it’s ________, while it’s south has been its ________.

a. cultural center; military stronghold

b. most dynamic region; least populated region

c. political center; breadbasket

d. ethnically diverse heartland; Han center

9. Which of these is nicknamed “The Furnace of China”?

a. the Gobi Desert

b. Turpan Depression

c. the Ordos Desert

d. the Tarim Basin

10. Compared to northern China, the climate of Korea is ________.

a. the exact opposite

b. more given to extremes

c. generally warmer

d. very similar

11. Prior to around 2000 BCE, Japan was typified by ________.

a. large agricultural estates

b. small rice farms

c. fishing villages

d. nomadic hunter-gatherers

12. The Khmer are one of the peoples of ________.

a. Korea

b. Vietnam

c. Japan

d. Tibet

13. Prior to the arrival of Chinese immigrants, Taiwan was culturally ________ China.

a. closely related to

b. distinct from

c. nearly identical to

d. diverse compared to

14. As a member of the Sino-Tibetan language group, Tibet’s languages are ________ Chinese languages.

a. distantly related to

b. the ancestors of

c. descended from

d. unrelated to

15. Which of these has the largest Tibetan population?

a. China

b. Tibet

c. Nepal

d. India

16. According to Map 1.4 above, Korean and Japanese are most closely related to what other language?

a. Chinese

b. Vietnamese

c. Russian

d. Mongolian

17. The Shiji are ________ works.

a. literary

b. historical

c. religious

d. philosophical

18. Which of these belongs to the Altaic language family?

a. Korean

b. Japanese

c. Mongolic

d. Han

19. Which of these provides evidence that Korea and Japan may have ancient cultural ties?

a. language

b. pottery

c. climate

d. Chinese records

20. The Utari are Japan’s ________.

a. first settlers

b. dominant ethnicity

c. most recent immigrants

d. main linguistic group