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Taiwan is located off the coast
of: A) Russia B) China C) Korea
D) Vietnam E) Japan True/False True/False
The culture hearth of Chinese civilization is located in the lower Huang
He Valley near the confluence of the Chang River. True/False
The Han Dynasty was China's formative period; Chinese still call themselves
the “people of Han.” True/FalseChina’s
One-Child policy was not enforced in urban areas. True/False
The North China Plain is one of the world’s most densely populated
farming areas. True/False
Xinjiang and Xizang are two of the most densely populated regions of
China Proper. Macao was a former British
colony. True/False
Japan’s four large islands are Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Sakhalin. True/False
In terms of coal, iron ore, and petroleum, Japan is better supplied
by domestic resources than the British Isles. True/False
The economies of North and South Korea are complementary and both states
would have much to gain by reunification. True/False
North Korea has numerous industrial raw materials; the resources of
the South are more agricultural. True/False
Taiwan ranks ahead of the People’s Republic of China in GNI per capita. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
constitute the _______________ Triangle. Fill-in-the-blank The upland located in the central
Huang Basin which is composed of thick, highly-fertile, wind-borne soil
deposits (probably from the nearby Ordos Desert) is known as the __________
Plateau. The dynasty of the period from
about 200 B.C. to A.D. 200 was so influential in the formation of China
that most Chinese today still consider themselves the “people of__________.” The leader of the legendary
Long March through interior China was __________. A movement of great upheaval
known as the __________ was launched by Mao Zedong in the late 1960s
to prevent “revisionism” and rekindle enthusiasm for the Chinese
Communist system. The region of China that was
the home of the country’s last dynastic rulers, which is often called
Manchuria by geographically-uninformed outsiders, is the ____________. The most important of China's
Rivers, at whose mouth lies the seaport of Shanghai, is the__________. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
constitute the _______________ Triangle. Multiple Choice A former Portuguese colony that is the newest state in Southeast Asia is: A) Macau B) Singapore
C) Brunei D) Papua New Guinea E) East Timor Southeast Asian physiography is dominated by: A) extensive plateaus
B) high relief C) extensive flat plains D) rolling
hills E) dry-environment landforms Southeast Asia, compared to the South Asia 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 Half of Southeast Asia’s population lives in which two countries? A) Indonesia and Vietnam
B) Burma and Thailand C) Vietnam and the Philippines
D) Malaysia and Myanmar E) Singapore and Thailand Large-scale 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 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 Which of the following mother country-colony associations is incorrect? A) Spain—Philippines
B) Britain—Burma C) Netherlands—Brunei D)
France—Vietnam E) Portugal--Timor In 1965, _______ broke away from Malaysia and became a separate political entity in Southeast Asia. A) Singapore B)
Hong Kong C) Sarawak D) Brunei E)
Borneo _______ held onto eastern Timor well after the Dutch left the East Indies. A) Portugal B)
France C) Australia D) Britain E)
Japan The largest Muslim country in the world in terms of population is: A) Bangladesh B)
Iran C) Pakistan D) Indonesia E)
Nigeria 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 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 Which of the following political entities is not located on the island of Borneo?: |