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Islam in Pakistan and Bangladesh

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
In what year did Bangladesh become independent?
a)
1945
b)
1947
c)
1962
d)
1971
2.

In what year did Pakistan become a nation?

a)

1945

b)

1947

c)

1962

d)

1971

3.
What is the former name of Bangladesh?
a)
East Pakistan
b)
West Pakistan
c)
Pakistan
d)
Kashmir
4.

Islam is the dominant religion in all of the following countries / regions EXCEPT:

a)

Pakistan

b)

Kashmir

c)

Bangladesh

d)

India

5.

Where did civilization in South Asia begin?

a)

Ganges Plain

b)

Brahmaputra River

c)

Indus River Valley

d)

Himalaya Mountains

6.

What civilization started in Pakistan ?

a)

Myan

b)

Indus Valley

c)

Aztec

d)

None

7.

End of British Rules in 1947 brought partition to India. Partition was the separation From India of the new Muslim country of West and East Pakistan. This was a period of violence between Muslims and Hindus where about 1 million people died. With the help of India (civil war) , in 1971, East Pakistan won its independence from West Pakistan and became the country of Bangladesh.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

What do the countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh export that is the same?

a)

rice and cotton garments

b)

fish and leather

c)

leather garments and fruit

d)

none

9.

The islamic custom of preventing women from having contact with men who are not relatives and while in public they wear veils to hide their faces, is called what?

a)

purdah

b)

purdue

c)

islam

d)

none of the above

10.

What is the difference between Pakistan and Bangladesh in regards to Islam?

a)

Pakistan is more strict in imposing Islamic law on its citizens

b)

Bangladesh is more strict in imposing Islamic law on its citizens

c)

Neither follow islamic law

d)

none of the above

11.

Rabindranath Tagore is the Bengali poet who won the nobel Prize for literature in 1913.

a)

true

b)

false