Social Studies 7

____ is the second-largest city in Bangladesh and is a major port off the Bay of Bengal.

• Chittagong

• Thimphu

• Dhaka

• Lahore

What is significant about Benazir Bhutto's political leadership?

• She was the first female prime minister in the world.

• She was the first female leader of a Muslim nation in modern history.

• She was the first female prime minister of India.

• She was the first female to serve more than one term as prime minister.

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami was an Indian writer known for creating ____.

• satirical plays

• political biographies

• fictional stories

• sacred texts

Founded in 1949 by Bengali Nationalists, the ____ in Bangladesh that has ruled since 2009. It has four principles of democracy, socialism, secularism, and nationalism.

• Awami League

• Bharatiya Janata Party

• Commonwealth of Nations

• India National Congress

Who was the last sultan of the Maldives? He was deposed from the throne in 1968.

• Muhammad Amin Didi

• Muhammad Fareed Didi

• Bahadur Shah Zafar

• Mohamed Nasheed

A ____ is any one of the four traditional social classes of India.

• varna

• khadi

• charkha

• nawab

Dalits are part of the traditional Indian caste system. Which of the following BEST exemplifies their occupation?

• priests

• warriors

• traders

• laborers

What Indian state shares its borders with Bhutan, Tibet, and Myanmar?

• Arunachal Pradesh

• Assam

• Bihar

• Sikkim

Who served as the female president of India from 2007 to 2012?

• Indira Gandhi

• Sirimavo Bandaranaike

• Benazir Bhutto

• Pratibha Patil

Operation Searchlight of 1971 can BEST be described as an attempt to ____.

• remove a Sikh militant leader and his followers from the Golden Temple in Punjab

• stop Bengali nationalists in East Pakistan

• remove Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from power

• intervene in the princely state of Hyderabad