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Test Bank Answers The South Asian Realm Ch9

Package Title: Testbank

Course Title: The World Today 8e

Chapter Number: 09

Question Type: Multiple Choice

1) The country located immediately northwest of India is __________.

a) China

b) Kashmir

c) Bangladesh

d) Afghanistan

e) Pakistan

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s major geographic features and its western boundary/transition zone.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Defining the Realm

2) The leading river of Pakistan is the ______________.

a) Tigris

b) Ganges

c) Brahmaputra

d) Indus

e) Irrawaddy

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the realm’s basic tectonic history, physical geography, and climate.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Physiography

3) The huge volcanic plateau that extends across most of southern India is known as the __________.

a) Ghats

b) Double Delta

c) Sindh

d) Deccan

e) Malabar

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Outline the realm’s basic tectonic history, physical geography, and climate.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Physiography

4) The belt of river lowlands extends eastward from Pakistan’s _________ through India’s ________ and then on across the great double delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra in Bangladesh.

a) lower Indus Valley; wide Gangetic plain

b) Ganges River; Indus River

c) Eastern Ghats; Western Ghats

d) Himalaya; Indus River

e) Punjab region; Indus River valley

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Outline the realm’s basic tectonic history, physical geography, and climate.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Physiography

5) The coastal plains of the Deccan plateau are marked by highlands known as the _______________.

a) Afghans

b) Ghats (Western and Eastern)

c) Aryans

d) Muslim Kushes

e) Hindu Kushes

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Outline the realm’s basic tectonic history, physical geography, and climate.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Physiography

6) The name “South Asia” is almost synonymous with the term _____.

a) plateau

b) desert

c) monsoon

d) Ganges

e) Golconda

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Outline the realm’s basic tectonic history, physical geography, and climate.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Physiography

7) The Bay of Bengal coast of India is also called the __________ Coast.

a) Coromandel-Golconda

b) Ghat

c) Malabar-Konkan

d) Deccan

e) Bangladesh

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Outline the realm’s basic tectonic history, physical geography, and climate.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Physiography

8) According to Figure 9-3, which of these locations benefits LEAST from the summer monsoon rains in South Asia?

A thematic map shows South Asia’s relief and physical features, as well as the path of the wet monsoon air flow. The northern part of South Asia is a landlocked region characterized by the high relief features such as the Himalayas stretching east to west, with notable mountain peaks including Nanda Devi ( 7,817 meters), Dhaulagiri (8,172 meters), Everest (8,850 meters), and Kanchenjunga (8,598 meters). The Central Highlands and the Balochistan Desert define the northwest contours while the Hindu Kush and Karakoram Range set the northernmost bounds. The Central Indian Plateau and the Deccan Plateau of the south form an arrow-shaped peninsular region flanked by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian Ocean to the south, and the Bay of Bengal on the east. The first wet monsoon seasonal air flow from the Arabian Sea to the west brings rainfall to the southwestern coasts of peninsular India from the Malabar Coast in the south to the Konkan Coast just south of Mumbai. The second flow identified is the Bay of Bengal branch, moving north across the Bay of Bengal and causing rainfall in the Ganges Delta basin from Kolkata to Bangladesh, before turning westward through the North Indian Plain and paralleling the Himalayas, This part of the flow brings rain to northern India as far west as the Punjab.

a) the Western Ghats

b) the North Indian Plain

c) the Ganges Delta

d) Bangladesh

e) Pakistan

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the realm’s basic tectonic history, physical geography, and climate.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Application

Section Reference: South Asia’s Physiography

9) The caste system is most associated with which of the following religions:

a) Taliban

b) Islam

c) Buddhism

d) Hinduism

e) Sanskrit

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s ancient civilization, the origins of Hinduism, and the emergence of other religions.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Birthplace of Civilizations and Religions

10) Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam are __________________.

a) border provinces of India, facing the Arabian Sea

b) four major cities in Pakistan, all located on the Brahmaputra River

c) four leading Dravidian languages spoken in southern India

d) the political divisions of Sri Lanka, created after independence in 1963

e) the four islands that constitute the Maldives

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s ancient civilization, the origins of Hinduism, and the emergence of other religions.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Birthplace of Civilizations and Religions

11)  Which of the following is NOT an Indo-European language?

a) Telugu

b) Hindi

c) Bengali

d) Punjabi

e) Gujarati

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s ancient civilization, the origins of Hinduism, and the emergence of other religions.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Birthplace of Civilizations and Religions

12) The earliest and fullest conversion of adherents to Islam in the South Asian realm occurred in the ____________.

a) Ganges Valley

b) Deccan Plateau

c) Indus Basiny

d) Double Delta

e) Brahmaputra Valley

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Outline the historical role of Islamic invaders and European colonizers.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Foreign Invaders

13) The direct political administration of India by the British government (the raj) lasted for _____________.

a) 18 years

b) 90 years

c) 124 years

d) 163 years through 2016, and still continues

e) 247 years

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Outline the historical role of Islamic invaders and European colonizers.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Foreign Invaders

14) Figure 9-4 shows that most of the Indus Valley civilization sites were located in what type of terrain?

A topographic map shows the extent of the Indus Valley Civilization. The Indus Valley Civilization extended approximately 300 kilometers wide and 900 kilometers upstream from the mouth of the Indus River, to the feet of the Himalayas, diffusing through the broad plain defined by the tributaries of the Indus: the Jhalum, Chenab, Ravi, and Sutlej. The Harappa, Kalibhangan, Alamgirpur and Rupar sites occupy this northern area, with Rupar just below the foothills of the Himalayas. Eight sites, more densely concentrated, are found in the lower Indus valley, including the major site of Mohenjo-Daro about 200 kilometers inland from the Arabian Sea coast. From the mouth of the Indus, the Indus Valley Civilization extended southeasterly along the Arabian Sea coast just past the Kathlawar Peninsula and modern-day Surat. Like the lower Indus valley, multiple sites are concentrated in this southeastern extent of the civilization. An inset map on the bottom right corner illustrates the relative locations of the Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia and the Indus Valley in South Asia.

a) Mountain slopes

b) River lowlands

c) Plateaus

d) On the margins of deserts

e) Peninsular plateaus

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s ancient civilization, the origins of Hinduism, and the emergence of other religions.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Application

Section Reference: Birthplace of Civilizations and Religions

15) __________ languages never took hold in the southern portion of the Indian subcontinent.

a) Indo-European

b) Dravidian

c) Sino-Tibetan

d) Offshore Asian

e) Malay-Polynesian

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s ancient civilization, the origins of Hinduism, and the emergence of other religions.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Birthplace of Civilizations and Religions

16) India remains about _____ percent Muslim today.

a) 4

b) 15

c) 26

d) 62

e) 88

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the historical role of Islamic invaders and European colonizers.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Foreign Invaders

17) Which of the following pair of states emerged from the 1947 partition of British India?

a) Bhutan and Nepal

b) India and Pakistan

c) Kashmir and Afghanistan

d) Ceylon and Sri Lanka

e) Bangladesh and Burma

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Explain the geopolitical situation around the partition of India and Pakistan and their subsequent relations (including the Jammu & Kashmir problem), the complicated triangle of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the basics of India-China relations.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Geopolitics of Modern South Asia

18) East Pakistan became Bangladesh in ___________.

a) 1857

b) 1918

c) 1947

d) 1971

e) 1991

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Explain the geopolitical situation around the partition of India and Pakistan and their subsequent relations (including the Jammu & Kashmir problem), the complicated triangle of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the basics of India-China relations.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Geopolitics of Modern South Asia

19) The component(s) of India in which tensions continue to boil over border demarcation is ________.

a) Jammu and Kashmir

b) the Bombay (Mumbai) metropolitan region

c) the central Gangetic Plain

d) the States to the northeast of Bangladesh

e) the southernmost States of the peninsula

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Explain the geopolitical situation around the partition of India and Pakistan and their subsequent relations (including the Jammu & Kashmir problem), the complicated triangle of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the basics of India-China relations.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Geopolitics of Modern South Asia

20) Figure 9-7 shows that the territory called Aksai Chin is currently under this country's political control:

A thematic map illustrates the partition of Jammu and Kashmir. The Pakistan-India Line of Control winds from the Chinese border north of Leh southwest, and then west, circling Srinagar approximately 50 miles south, then the line winds south toward Jammu. Pakistani Kashmir, including the Karakoram Range and the regions of Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Baltistan, is situated to the north and west of the Line of Control, with a slice of the northeastern most part of the Karakoram Range Claimed by India but ceded by Pakistan to China. The border region of Pakistani Kashmir near Balakot, Abbottabad and Islamabad in Pakistan is Azad Kashmir. The entirety of Pakistani Kashmir is claimed by India but controlled by Pakistan. On the Indian side of the Line of Control is the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, with the city of Srinagar at the north end of the Vale of Kashmir, north of the Pulwama District; Jammu at the south end of the Vale of Kashmir, close to the Pakistani border; and Leh in the east, south and west of the Ladakh region. All of this area is controlled by India. The northeast half of Ladakh, including the Aksai Chin, is claimed by India but controlled by China.

a) India

b) Pakistan

c) China

d) Afghanistan

e) Nepal

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Explain the geopolitical situation around the partition of India and Pakistan and their subsequent relations (including the Jammu & Kashmir problem), the complicated triangle of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the basics of India-China relations.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Application

Section Reference: The Geopolitics of Modern South Asia

21) The physiologic density of Pakistan is ________ the arithmetic population density.

a) greater than

b) less than

c) equal to

d) the inverse of

e) directly proportional to

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss the realm’s population distribution and explain the demographic transition and other demographic concepts including population pyramids and the demographic gender imbalance.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Population Geography

22) Afghanistan today is in the ______ stage of its demographic transition.

a) first

b) second

c) third

d) fourth

e) final

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss the realm’s population distribution and explain the demographic transition and other demographic concepts including population pyramids and the demographic gender imbalance.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Population Geography

23) Which of the following countries in the South Asian realm has NOT had a female prime minister?

a) Sri Lanka

b) India

c) Bangladesh

d) Nepal

e) Pakistan

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss the realm’s population distribution and explain the demographic transition and other demographic concepts including population pyramids and the demographic gender imbalance.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Population Geography

24)  Economic growth in the South Asian realm has come about mostly as a result of ___________.

a) a free-trade agreement with the United States

b) increased trade with China

c) an emphasis on modernizing agriculture

d) migration to the United Kingdom and the United States

e) neoliberal reforms

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss recent economic developments in the realm and internal disparities; the emergence of megacities; the continuing importance of agriculture and impacts of extreme weather events.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Emerging Markets and Fragmented Modernization

25) Which of the following countries does NOT share a common border with Pakistan?

a) Iran

b) China

c) Bangladesh

d) Afghanistan

e) India

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s major geographic features and its western boundary/transition zone.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Defining the Realm

26) Which of the following associations is INCORRECT?

a) Sri Lanka and Colombo

b) Bangladesh and Dhaka

c) Nepal and Kathmandu

d) Pakistan and New Delhi

e) Bhutan and Thimphu

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s major geographic features and its western boundary/transition zone.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Defining the Realm

27) Which of the following is NOT located in Pakistan?

a) Deccan Plateau

b) Sindh

c) Punjab

d) Islamabad

e) Karachi

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Pakistan’s general geographic features, 4 sub-regions, and the significance of the China-Pakistan corridor.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Pakistan

28) Which of the following is located in the core area of Pakistan?

a) Punjab

b) Sindh

c) the Indus Delta

d) the Tribal Areas

e) Balochistan

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Pakistan’s general geographic features, 4 sub-regions, and the significance of the China-Pakistan corridor.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Pakistan

29) Which of the following provinces of Pakistan is known for being a religious militant province, with close ties to Afghanistan?

a) Sindh

b) Punjab

c) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

d) Kashmir

e) Balochistan

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Pakistan’s general geographic features, 4 sub-regions, and the significance of the China-Pakistan corridor.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Pakistan

30) Which of the following cities is located in Pakistan's Sindh region?

a) Dhaka

b) Kabol

c) Islamabad

d) Lahore

e) Karachi

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Pakistan’s general geographic features, 4 sub-regions, and the significance of the China-Pakistan corridor.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Pakistan

31) The so-called Tribal Areas are located in which province of Pakistan?

a) Sindh

b) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

c) Kashmir

d) Punjab

e) Balochistan

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Pakistan’s general geographic features, 4 sub-regions, and the significance of the China-Pakistan corridor.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Pakistan

32) A territory whose control is hotly disputed by India and Pakistan is _____________.

a) Punjab

b) Jammu and Kashmir

c) the Maldives

d) northern Sri Lanka

e) the Tribal Areas

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Explain the geopolitical situation around the partition of India and Pakistan and their subsequent relations (including the Jammu & Kashmir problem), the complicated triangle of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the basics of India-China relations.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Geopolitics of Modern South Asia

33) Sindh is a Pakistani breadbasket for __________

  1. wheat and rice
  2. oil and water
  3. automobiles and furs
  4. cotton and textiles
  5. oranges and wind power

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss Pakistan’s general geographic features, 4 sub-regions, and the significance of the China-Pakistan corridor.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Pakistan

34) The approximate percentage of India’s urban population is ____________.

a) 35

b) 55

c) 70

d) 85

e) 95

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

35) Dominant crops in India’s agricultural system include all but which of the following?

a) wheat

b) soybeans

c) rice

d) millet

e) chickpeas

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

36) Which of the following is NOT one of India's newer States?

a) Chhattisgarh

b) Punjab

c) Jharkhand

d) Uttarakhand

e) Telangana

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

37) Which State is located in southern India?

a) Orissa

b) Kerala

c) Uttar Pradesh

d) Kashmir

e) Maharashtra

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

38) India’s IT industry is concentrated in several major cities throughout the country. In which of the following is it NOT significant?

a) Bengaluru

b) Hyderabad

c) Delhi/New Delhi

d) Kolkata

e) Mumbai

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe India’s general economic geography, agriculture, the recent rise of the IT sector, and urbanization trends.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Economic Geography

39)   The Muslim minority constitutes approximately ___ percent of the total population of India.

a) 10

b) 15

c) 20

d) 30

e) 45

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Outline the historical role of Islamic invaders and European colonizers.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Foreign Invaders

40)  Hindutva is (are) ____________________.

a) a movement that promotes Hindu nationalism, heritage, and/or patriotism

b) a sect of the Hindu religion that practices yoga

c) the holiest Hindu shrine in northern India

d) recent converts from Islam

e) India's dominant language

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

41) India's Sikh population is concentrated in _____________.

a) Punjab

b) Asom

c) the far south

d) the area centered on Mumbai

e) the Ganges Delta

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

42) The highest-ranking, priestly caste in India is known as the ______________.

a) Hindutva

b) Brahmans

c) Touchables

d) Sikhs

e) Dalits

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

43) The Untouchable caste in India is also known as the ________________.

a) Hindu Kushes

b) Dalits

c) Brahmans

d) Sikhs

e) Tamils

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

44) The city located closest to the Ganges Delta is _________________.

a) Kolkata

b) New Delhi

c) Chennai

d) Brahmanputra

e) Karachi

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

45) Which of the following cities is NOT connected to the Golden Quadrilateral superhighway that links India's main urban centers?

a) Mumbai

b) Dhaka

c) Delhi

d) Kolkata

e) Chennai

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe India’s general economic geography, agriculture, the recent rise of the IT sector, and urbanization trends.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

46) Which of the following statements about agriculture in India is INCORRECT?

a) food production is tied to climate and physiography.

b) Wheat is grown in the east while rice dominates in the west.

c) The country produces an ample variety of crops, but yields usually are disappointingly low.

d) India contains more than 600,000 villages that cannot be accessed by truck or car. 

e) Agriculture provides more jobs in India than any other employment sector.

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

47) Which of the following services is clustered in metropolitan Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mumbai, and draw much international attention?

a) coal mining

b) oil refining

c) textiles

d) gambling and tourism

e) information communication technology

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

48) In comparing India with China, which statement is CORRECT?

a) The countries have comparatively sized populations.

b) India has a larger urban middle class than China.

c) The Chinese economy employs less people in manufacturing than does India’s.

d) India’s IT industry is less important than China’s.

e) None of the answer choices are correct.

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

49) A widening regional economic disparity in India since 2000 has opened between ____________.

a) Hindu and Muslim areas

b) east and west

c) north and south

d) the coastal zone and the interior

e) the uplands and riverine lowlands

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

50) Figure 9-20 shows that the most dominant crop in the eastern part of the Ganges River Valley in India is _____________.

A thematic map shows the dominant crop zones of India’s agriculture. Wheat and chickpea cultivation occupies most of north-central India, while rice dominates the coastal plains, the southern Deccan region of Karnataka, and much of eastern India. Rice, plantations, and shifting cultivation dominate in the northeastern regions. Cotton is cultivated chiefly in Gujarat around Surat and central India around Nagpur; in the rest of Gujarat groundnut cultivation dominates. In a band running southwest to northeast through Rajasthan corn dominates. For the rest of the west, including Rajasthan, western Madhya Pradesh, and inland Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh, millet dominates. The southeast coast, including most of Kerala, is dominated by coconut production.

a) wheat

b) rice

c) millet

d) cotton

e) corn

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Application

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

51) The Indian city formerly known as Madras is today called ________

  1. Chennai
  2. Bangalore
  3. Mumbai
  4. Kolkata
  5. Hindubad

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

52) During the twentieth century, two of the deadliest weather disasters in the world struck ___________.

a) India

b) Indonesia

c) Bangladesh

d) Pakistan

e) Sri Lanka

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Bangladesh’s geographic vulnerabilities and economic achievements.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Bangladesh

53) Bangladesh was formerly known as _____________.

a) East Pakistan

b) East India

c) Ceylon

d) West Pakistan

e) Burma

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Bangladesh’s geographic vulnerabilities and economic achievements.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Geopolitics of Modern South Asia

54)One of the reasons for Bangladesh’s vulnerability to natural disasters is its ______________________.

a)  mountainous terrain subject to landslides

b) location on the Pacific Ring of Fire

c) vast deltaic plain

d) proximity to volcanoes

e) frequent earthquakes

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Bangladesh’s geographic vulnerabilities and economic achievements.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Bangladesh

55) The two countries of South Asia's Mountainous North are ___________.

a) Sri Lanka and Ceylon

b) Pakistan and Bangladesh

c) Nepal and Bhutan

d) Asom and Punjab

e) Jammu and Kashmir

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe the location and basic internal geographies of Nepal and Bhutan.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Northern Mountain States

56) Which of the following statements about Nepal is INCORRECT?

a) The Nepalese are a people of many origins.

b) Maoist-communist groups no longer have an impact.

c) The Himalayas form a dominant physical feature.

d) 82% are Hindu.

e) Its capital is located in the country's core area.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe the location and basic internal geographies of Nepal and Bhutan.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Northern Mountain States

57) The_____________ consists of some 1200 tiny islands and are located farther out in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of southernmost India.

a) Tamils

b) SriLankans

c) Dravidians

d) Maldives

e) Tribal Areas

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss the exposure of the Maldives to sea level rise and Sri Lanka’s delicate ethnic/religious mosaic.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Southern Islands

58) The Buddhist-majority population of Sri Lanka is known as the ____________.

a) Ceylonese

b) Sinhalese

c) Tamil Tigers

d) Dravidians

e) Eelams

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss the exposure of the Maldives to sea level rise and Sri Lanka’s delicate ethnic/religious mosaic.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Southern Islands

59) Bangladesh is overwhelmingly ____________ in its religious complexion.

  1. Hindu
  2. Buddhist
  3. Muslim
  4. Christian
  5. Atheist

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Bangladesh’s geographic vulnerabilities and economic achievements.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Geopolitics of Modern South Asia

Question Type: True-False

60) The Ghats form the southernmost range of the Himalayas.

Learning Objective: Outline the realm’s basic tectonic history, physical geography, and climate.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Physiography

61) The Malabar-Konkan Coast of India contains the Eastern Ghats and the city of Chennai.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the realm’s basic tectonic history, physical geography, and climate.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Physiography

62) The Ganges and Brahmaputra River valleys converge at their lower ends.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the realm’s basic tectonic history, physical geography, and climate.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Physiography

63) South Asia's (wet) monsoon refers to seasonal rains that usually start in June.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s major geographic features and its western boundary/transition zone.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Defining the Realm

64) Hindi is the dominant language of southern India.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Describe India’s general economic geography, agriculture, the recent rise of the IT sector, and urbanization trends.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Economic Geography

65) The Aryans spoke Indo-European languages.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s ancient civilization, the origins of Hinduism, and the emergence of other religions.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Birthplace of Civilizations and Religions

66)  Hindi is part of the Dravidian language family.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s ancient civilization, the origins of Hinduism, and the emergence of other religions.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Birthplace of Civilizations and Religions

67) Sikhism is a blend of Islamic and Hindu beliefs.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s ancient civilization, the origins of Hinduism, and the emergence of other religions.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Birthplace of Civilizations and Religions

68) Islam from the beginning was a faith alien to India, and the country has resisted its penetration.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the historical role of Islamic invaders and European colonizers.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Foreign Invaders

69) India formally became part of the British Empire in 1857.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the historical role of Islamic invaders and European colonizers.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Foreign Invaders

70) Buddhism has its origins in India.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s ancient civilization, the origins of Hinduism, and the emergence of other religions.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Birthplace of Civilizations and Religions

71) Dravidian languages are mostly spoken in southern India.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s ancient civilization, the origins of Hinduism, and the emergence of other religions.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Birthplace of Civilizations and Religions

72) Pakistan’s capital city is Karachi.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Pakistan’s general geographic features, 4 sub-regions, and the significance of the China-Pakistan corridor.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Geopolitics of Modern South Asia

73) The physiological population density of a country is always lower than the arithmetic density.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss the realm’s population distribution and explain the demographic transition and other demographic concepts including population pyramids and the demographic gender imbalance.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Population Geography

74) The demographic transition model describes changes in birth rates, death rates, and population growth over time.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss the realm’s population distribution and explain the demographic transition and other demographic concepts including population pyramids and the demographic gender imbalance.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Population Geography

75) In the first stage of the demographic transition, both birth rates and death rates are high.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss the realm’s population distribution and explain the demographic transition and other demographic concepts including population pyramids and the demographic gender imbalance.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Population Geography

76) In the second stage of the demographic transition, the overall population expands.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss the realm’s population distribution and explain the demographic transition and other demographic concepts including population pyramids and the demographic gender imbalance.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Population Geography

77) Under certain circumstances a large population can be considered a human resource.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss the realm’s population distribution and explain the demographic transition and other demographic concepts including population pyramids and the demographic gender imbalance.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Population Geography

78) Sex ratios in India are most skewed in the poorer parts of the country.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss the realm’s population distribution and explain the demographic transition and other demographic concepts including population pyramids and the demographic gender imbalance.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Population Geography

79) The Punjab region extends into both Pakistan and India.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Pakistan’s general geographic features, 4 sub-regions, and the significance of the China-Pakistan corridor.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Pakistan

80) The majority of Kashmir's population is Hindu.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Explain the geopolitical situation around the partition of India and Pakistan and their subsequent relations (including the Jammu & Kashmir problem), the complicated triangle of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the basics of India-China relations.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Geopolitics of Modern South Asia

81) Karachi is an important port city in Pakistan.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Pakistan’s general geographic features, 4 sub-regions, and the significance of the China-Pakistan corridor.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Pakistan

82) Lahore is the cultural heart of Pakistan.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Pakistan’s general geographic features, 4 sub-regions, and the significance of the China-Pakistan corridor.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Pakistan

83) Pakistan’s Balochistan Province lies along Iran’s eastern border.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s major geographic features and its western boundary/transition zone.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Defining the Realm

84) According to Figure 9-16, Pakistan's current capital is smaller in population size than its former capital, Karachi.

A thematic map shows the political borders, major cities, cropland, and transportation networks of Afghanistan and Pakistan. On either side of the Hindu Kush mountain chain, Pakistan and Afghanistan are nations bordering the northwest of India, and flanked to the west by Iran, and to the north by Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and China. While Pakistan is a populous nation characterized by croplands all along the north–south flow of the Indus River and its tributaries, Afghanistan is a rugged plateau with a smaller population, and opium poppies are grown all around its northern border, in most of the south, and in the Jalabad region of the Hindu Kush. Of Pakistan’s provinces of Sindh, Balochistan, Waziristan, Punjab, Khyber Pakthunkhwa, and Gilgit-Baltistan, the Punjab has the largest proportion of both cropland and major cities. Situated on the Arabian Sea coast in Sindh province, Karachi is an exception with over 5 million inhabitants; Quetta in Baluchistan is the only other city over 250,000 residents located outside Pakistan’s cultivated region. In Afghanistan, Kabol is the only city over 1 million inhabitants; Jalabad in the east, Herat in the west, Kandahar in the south and Mazar-e-Sharif are the only cities over 250,000 residents in Afghanistan.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Pakistan’s general geographic features, 4 sub-regions, and the significance of the China-Pakistan corridor.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Application

Section Reference: The West: Pakistan

85) Afghanistan has no ethnic majority.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Afghanistan’s geographic locations; the reasons and results of the U.S. invasion.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Afghanistan’s Transition Zone

86) The caste system has completely disappeared from Indian society.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

87) India's Muslim population now constitutes less than 2 percent of the country's population.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the historical role of Islamic invaders and European colonizers.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Foreign Invaders

88) South Asia is the most populous geographic realm on Earth.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss South Asia’s major geographic features and its western boundary/transition zone.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Defining the Realm

89) The Sikhs are concentrated in India's Punjab.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

90) The so-called Untouchables—or Dalits—of the Indian caste system are believed to be directly descended from a Hindu god.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

91) The Brahmans form the lowest-ranking social group in the Hindu caste system.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

92) The Indian coastal city long known as Bombay is today officially named Kolkata.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

93) The Golden Quadrilateral is a route connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Describe India’s general economic geography, agriculture, the recent rise of the IT sector, and urbanization trends.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Economic Geography

94) Western India is now developing more rapidly than the east.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

95) Hundreds of thousands of workers from western India have found jobs in the oil-rich economies of the Persian Gulf countries.

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

96) Naxalite revolutionaries challenge India’s federal government.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

97) Politically, India is a federal state, composed of States and Territories.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

98) Sinhalese are in the majority on the island formerly known as Ceylon.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss the exposure of the Maldives to sea level rise and Sri Lanka’s delicate ethnic/religious mosaic.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Southern Islands

99) The territory of Bangladesh is constituted by the deltaic plain of the merged Ganges-Brahmaputra river system.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Bangladesh’s geographic vulnerabilities and economic achievements.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Bangladesh

100) Much of Bangladesh's land lies close to sea level, leaving the country prone to frequent river flooding and long-term sea level rise.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Bangladesh’s geographic vulnerabilities and economic achievements.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Bangladesh

101) Nepal and Bhutan are landlocked countries.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Describe the location and basic internal geographies of Nepal and Bhutan.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Northern Mountain States

102) Bhutan is located between Nepal and Kashmir.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Describe the location and basic internal geographies of Nepal and Bhutan.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Northern Mountain States

103) Ceylon is the former name of Sri Lanka.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss the exposure of the Maldives to sea level rise and Sri Lanka’s delicate ethnic/religious mosaic.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Southern Islands

104) Ethnically, the majority of Sri Lanka’s people are Hindus.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss the exposure of the Maldives to sea level rise and Sri Lanka’s delicate ethnic/religious mosaic.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Southern Islands

105) Tamil extremists, long demanding an independent state, were defeated in 2009.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss the exposure of the Maldives to sea level rise and Sri Lanka’s delicate ethnic/religious mosaic.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Southern Islands

106) The Maldives population is now virtually 100 Muslim.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss the exposure of the Maldives to sea level rise and Sri Lanka’s delicate ethnic/religious mosaic.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Southern Islands

107) Bangladesh has become known as the “textile capital of the world.”

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Bangladesh’s geographic vulnerabilities and economic achievements.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Bangladesh

Question Type: Fill-in-the-blank

108) The plateau extending across most of India is known as the ___.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the realm’s basic tectonic history, physical geography, and climate.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Physiography

109) The river that flows across India's major northern lowland is the ___ River.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the realm’s basic tectonic history, physical geography, and climate.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Physiography

110) The mountain range containing Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, is called the ___.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the realm’s basic tectonic history, physical geography, and climate.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Physiography

111) The partitioning of the Indian subcontinent into the modern states of India and Pakistan occurred in the year ___.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Explain the geopolitical situation around the partition of India and Pakistan and their subsequent relations (including the Jammu & Kashmir problem), the complicated triangle of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the basics of India-China relations.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Geopolitics of Modern South Asia

112) The amount of cultivated land per person is known as a country's ___ density.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss the realm’s population distribution and explain the demographic transition and other demographic concepts including population pyramids and the demographic gender imbalance.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: South Asia’s Population Geography

113) The cultural focus of Islam in Pakistan today is the city of ___.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Pakistan’s general geographic features, 4 sub-regions, and the significance of the China-Pakistan corridor.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Pakistan

114) The social stratification that dominates Hindu India is known as the ___ system.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

115) ___ is a movement that seeks to remake India into a society in which Hindu principles prevail.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss India’s general administrative structure, urban geographies of Delhi, the significance of communal tensions, and the basic nature of the caste system.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: India: Giant of the Realm

116) Bhutan is a buffer state between India and ___ 

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Describe the location and basic internal geographies of Nepal and Bhutan.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Northern Mountain States

117) The former state of East Pakistan, which separated from West Pakistan after a brief war in 1971, is now called ___.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Bangladesh’s geographic vulnerabilities and economic achievements.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Bangladesh

118) This state leads India in many categories, including private industries and manufacturing goods.

a) Nagaland

b) Manipur

c) Meghalaya

d) Maharashtra

e) Madhya Pradesh

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe India’s general economic geography, agriculture, the recent rise of the IT sector, and urbanization trends.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Economic Geography

119) This is considered an entry-level industry in the manufacturing sector.

a) textiles

b) cabinet making

c) piano building

d) fishing

e) logging

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe India’s general economic geography, agriculture, the recent rise of the IT sector, and urbanization trends.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Economic Geography

120) What percentage of Indians work in IT?

a) 0.5

b) 2

c) 5

d) 15

e) 25

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe India’s general economic geography, agriculture, the recent rise of the IT sector, and urbanization trends.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Economic Geography

121) This number approximates the percentage of Indians living in urban areas.

a) 1/10

b) 1/5

c) 1/4

d) 1/3

e) 1/2

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe India’s general economic geography, agriculture, the recent rise of the IT sector, and urbanization trends.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Economic Geography

122) Review Figure 9-20. What does not hinder Indian agricultural production?

A thematic map shows the dominant crop zones of India’s agriculture. Wheat and chickpea cultivation occupies most of north-central India, while rice dominates the coastal plains, the southern Deccan region of Karnataka, and much of eastern India. Rice, plantations, and shifting cultivation dominate in the northeastern regions. Cotton is cultivated chiefly in Gujarat around Surat and central India around Nagpur; in the rest of Gujarat groundnut cultivation dominates. In a band running southwest to northeast through Rajasthan corn dominates. For the rest of the west, including Rajasthan, western Madhya Pradesh, and inland Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh, millet dominates. The southeast coast, including most of Kerala, is dominated by coconut production.

a) slow moving animals

b) monsoon related floods

c) None of the choices are correct.

d) lack of paved roads from farm to city

e) droughts

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe India’s general economic geography, agriculture, the recent rise of the IT sector, and urbanization trends.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Application

Section Reference: Economic Geography

123) This number approximates the percentage of children in South Asia who are malnourished and underweight.

a) 10%

b) 20%

c) 25%

d) 33%

e) 50%

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss recent economic developments in the realm and internal disparities; the emergence of megacities; the continuing importance of agriculture and impacts of extreme weather events.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Emerging Markets and Fragmented Modernization

124) India contains _____ megacities..

a) 1

b) 2

c) 8

d) 9

e) 13

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss recent economic developments in the realm and internal disparities; the emergence of megacities; the continuing importance of agriculture and impacts of extreme weather events.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Emerging Markets and Fragmented Modernization

125) The contribution of agriculture to the national economy averages _____ in the South Asian Realm.

a) 10%

b) 20%

c) 30%

d) 50%

e) 70%

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss recent economic developments in the realm and internal disparities; the emergence of megacities; the continuing importance of agriculture and impacts of extreme weather events.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Emerging Markets and Fragmented Modernization

126) The South Asian Realm has this percentage of the workforce employed in agricultural production.

a) less than 10%

b) about 20%

c) about 30%

d) over 50%

e) over 70%

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss recent economic developments in the realm and internal disparities; the emergence of megacities; the continuing importance of agriculture and impacts of extreme weather events.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Emerging Markets and Fragmented Modernization

127) What is the leading reason why climate change is impacting the South Asia Realm?

a) droughts

b) floods

c) heat waves

d) cyclones

e) direct dependence on the agricultural sector for livelihoods

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss recent economic developments in the realm and internal disparities; the emergence of megacities; the continuing importance of agriculture and impacts of extreme weather events.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Emerging Markets and Fragmented Modernization

128) The group is the ethnic majority of Afghans.

a) Pushtans

b) Tajiks

c) Hazaras

d) Turkmen

e) None of the responses is correct.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Afghanistan’s geographic locations; the reasons and results of the U.S. invasion.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Afghanistan’s Transition Zone

129) What two world powers competed for control over Afghanistan in the last century?

a) United States and Pakistan

b) United States and Russia

c) Russia and Pakistan

d) Russia and India

e) Britain and Russia

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Afghanistan’s geographic locations; the reasons and results of the U.S. invasion.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Afghanistan’s Transition Zone

130) This happened as a result of the American War inside Afghanistan.

a) Osama Bin Laden was killed.

b) Afghanistan is a functioning democracy.

c) Terrorism has been driven from the country.

d) The economy is prospering.

e) None of the responses is correct.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Afghanistan’s geographic locations; the reasons and results of the U.S. invasion.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Afghanistan’s Transition Zone

131) This group first started operating in Afghanistan.

a) al-Qaeda

b) Taliban

c) ISIS

d) ISIL

e) Boko Haram

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Afghanistan’s geographic locations; the reasons and results of the U.S. invasion.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The West: Afghanistan’s Transition Zone

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