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East Asia

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What East Asian country is pictured below?

a)

Japan

b)

Taiwan

c)

Mongolia

d)

China

2.

What East Asian country is pictured below?

a)

Mongolia

b)

Japan

c)

North Korea

d)

South Korea

3.

What East Asian country is pictured below?

a)

Mongolia

b)

Bangladesh

c)

North Korea

d)

South Korea

4.

What East Asian country is pictured below?

a)

China

b)

Japan

c)

Singapore

d)

North Korea

5.

What East Asian country is pictured below?

a)

China

b)

Japan

c)

Singapore

d)

North Korea

6.

The ancient indigenous religion of Japan characterized by worship of nature spirits and of ancestors

a)

Buddhism

b)

Shintoism

c)

Taoism

d)

Hinduism

7.

A philosophical system advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of nature.

a)

Confucianism

b)

Hinduism

c)

Taoism

d)

Shintoism

8.

The system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct.

a)

Confucianism

b)

Hinduism

c)

Taoism

d)

Shintoism

9.

A country or zone that is separating ideological or political adversaries (Mongolia and Tibet are good examples).

a)

Loess

b)

Ideograms

c)

Buffer Zone

d)

Special Economic Zones

10.

Dust or silt deposited by wind

a)

Loess

b)

Ideograms

c)

Buffer Zone

d)

Special Economic Zones

11.

What does this symbol mean - 中

a)

Way of the gods

b)

China

c)

Mighty Warrior

d)

Special Economic Zones

12.

Specific area within a country in which tax incentives are offered and fewer environmental regulations are enforced to attract foreign business and investment

a)

Urbanization

b)

Ideograms

c)

Buffer Zone

d)

Special Economic Zones

13.

The practice of planting crops on steep slopes that have been converted into a series of step-like level plots

a)

Elevation Agriculture

b)

Ideograms

c)

Terracing

d)

Urbanization

14.

A huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake

a)

Monsoon

b)

Tsunami

c)

Terracing

d)

Loess

15.

Who is the leader of North Korea?

a)

Kim Jong-un

b)

Xi Jinping

c)

Shinzō Abe

d)

Serzh Sargsyan

16.

Who is the leader of China?

a)

Kim Jong-un

b)

Moon Jae-in

c)

Shinzō Abe

d)

Xi Jinping

17.

Which historic Chinese leader is considered the "Father of New China"?

a)

Mao

b)

Xi

c)

Deng

d)

Hu

18.

Which historic Chinese leader was a general that lead the Chinese Communist Party to victory in the Chinese Civil War?

a)

Mao

b)

Xi

c)

Deng

d)

Hu

19.

Japan was an imperial power gaining more territory in the Pacific until what year? (the turning point in WW2)

a)

1936

b)

1942

c)

1953

d)

1931

20.

North Korea and South Korea have been in a technical "state of war" since what year?

a)

1936

b)

1942

c)

1953

d)

1967

21.

TRUE or FALSE: There are over 150,000 Chinese characters or symbols used to represent the language of China.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

22.

If you were an international business professional looking at outsourcing a product and establishing a new manufacturing facility in one of China's Special Economic Zones. What would be a reason you might consider this move?

a)

Low or No Taxes

b)

Fewer Regulations

c)

Cheaper Contract Labor

d)

All of the above are good reasons

23.

The writing or quotes of Confucious are in a collection called -

a)

The Quotes of Confucious

b)

The Virtues

c)

The Analects

d)

The Connections

24.

TRUE or FALSE: You can be both a Buddhist and a follower of Shintoism at the same time.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

25.

The principle of Yin and Yang that all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites, for example, female-male, dark-light and old-young is a belief of what Eastern Asian religion?

a)

Buddhism

b)

Confucianism

c)

Shintoism

d)

Taoism

26.

Shinto shrines are seperated from the outside material world by ______ gates.

a)

Moon

b)

Spirt

c)

Torii

d)

Kami

27.

Shinto means -

a)

The way of the wind

b)

The way of the sun

c)

The way of the Kami

d)

The way of the Torii

28.

What japanese sport has many Shinto rituals?

a)

Hockey

b)

Baseball

c)

Kung Fu

d)

Sumo

29.

How many McDonalds open in China each week?

a)

2

b)

5

c)

8

d)

12

30.

TRUE or FALSE: The national flag of Japan has a religious meaning?

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

31.

TRUE or FALSE: The national flag of South Korea has a religious meaning?

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

32.

TRUE or FALSE: The Japanese watch manga as cartoons and read anime as comics.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

33.

______ was the last nationalist leader of China. When the communist took over China he fled to ______

a)

Chaing Kai-shek; Taiwan

b)

Mao Zedong; Taiwan

c)

Mao Zedong; North Korea

d)

Chaing Kai-shek; North Korea

34.

TRUE or FALSE: Imperial Japan once controlled Taiwan, all or Korea, and Manchuria but never held any Chinese territory.

a)

TRUE

b)

False

35.

Chinese character represent an idea and are converted into sound by what is called a -

a)

kami

b)

torii

c)

pinyin

d)

tao

36.

Imperial Japan grew stronger and dominated the Pacific region until they attacked the United States in _____ on Dec. 7, 1941.

a)

Alaska

b)

Hawaii

c)

California

d)

The Phillipines

37.

China is "protected on 3 sides by natural barriers. Where is China less protected?

a)

The South

b)

The East

c)

The North

d)

The West

38.

Which statement below about China is not correct?

a)

China is the world's most populated area

b)

China is one of the world's earliest culture hearths

c)

China has heavy population in the East situated in river basins and special economic zones

d)

China's temperature and soil is well suited for agriculture with virtually no deserts within its borders

39.

What Eastern Asian water feature does the map show?

a)

The South China Sea

b)

The Yangtze River

c)

The Sea of Japan

d)

The Yellow River

40.

What Eastern Asian water feature does the map show?

a)

The South China Sea

b)

The Yangtze River

c)

The Sea of Japan

d)

The Yellow River

41.

Extra Credit: True or False: The United States dropped more bombs and napalm on North Korea during the Korean War than they did in the entire Pacific during World War II.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

42.

Extra Credit: True of False: When North Korea put a flag up along the DMZ, South Korea put up an even larger flag.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

43.

Extra Credit: What is the name of the disputed islands that China has been building up in the South China Sea?

a)

The Spratley Islands

b)

The Johnson Islands

c)

The Philippines

d)

The Paracel Islands

44.

Extra Credit: What historical map is China using to support its claim to areas in the South China Sea?

a)

The early Cho map

b)

The nine-dash line map

c)

The territorial waters map of 1911

d)

The continental shelf underwater countor map

45.

Extra Credit: What is an example of a Freedom of Navigation Operation?

a)

Japanese navy ships landing a military force on the disputed islands in the South China Sea

b)

Japanese ships fishing in the disputed waters off their own coast

c)

U.S. Ships traveling through the South China Sea near the disputed islands

d)

U.S. Marines landing an peaceful force onto a disputed island in the South China Sea