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The shape of East Asia

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When an economy goes from being based on agriculture to being based on manufacturing and other industries...this is called what?

a)

Communism

b)

Urbanization

c)

Socialism

d)

Industrialization

2.

What type of economic system exists when the ruler/government has total control of the economy?

a)

Capitalist

b)

Communist

c)

Mixed

d)

Socialist

3.

South Korea is a country in?

a)

Southeast Asia

b)

East Asia

c)

North Asia

d)

Europe

4.

Which of these best explains the Chinese Communist party?

a)

Allows for citizens to choose from any political party

b)

The rights of individual Citizens are limited by the Chinese communist party

c)

China is more democratic than the United states, Germany and Russia.

d)

Citizens vote on all the laws

5.

Which of these options best describe the location of Spain?

a)

Spain, country located in extreme southwestern Europe. It occupies about 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula, which it shares with its smaller neighbor Portugal.

b)

It is located in the Southeast on the Scandinavian peninsula

c)

It is located on the Sub continent of South west Asia

d)

Spain is located on the Western and Sothern hemisphere.

6.

What type of economic system does China have?

a)

Capitalist

b)

Free Enterprise/ Market economy

c)

Communism

d)

Traditional economy

7.

What type of economy does Japan have?

a)

Free Enterprise/ Market

b)

Communism

c)

Socialism

d)

Traditional

8.

Which of these best defines a free enterprise system?

a)

Unlike Socialism or communism a free enterprise economic system provides sharing of wealth and income among people

b)

In a communist economic system, individuals and businesses are allowed to compete for financial gain; this is not a benefit of a free market or socialist economic system.

c)

Unlike a socialist or free enterprise economic system, a communist economic system attempts to meet the human needs of people, not create profits.

d)

A free enterprise is different from a communist or socialist economic system because government have very little or no control of the organization of goods and services in free enterprise systems.

9.

Which of these countries are both democratic?

a)

Russia and China

b)

China and Germany

c)

China and Spain

d)

Russia and Germany

10.
In a socialist economy, the wealth is distributed evenly among citizens.
a)
True
b)
False
11.
In a "pure" communist society, who are the wealthiest and most powerful people?
a)
Intellectuals
b)
Business leaders
c)
Military leaders
d)
No One--every member of society is supposed to be equal
12.
This is the social & political commitment & freedom to start their own businesses & compete
a)
free enterprise system
b)
free response system
c)
free travel system
d)
freedom of choice
13.

A person who chooses to, and is free to, open a grocery store is participating in a

a)

command economy

b)

centrally-planned economy

c)

free enterprise economy

d)

traditional economy

14.

In a free enterprise system, the government places ________________ restrictions on businesses and its citizens:

a)

minimum

b)

maximum

c)

normal

d)

abnormal

15.

The governments of these two Asian nations are examples of governments who restrict the economic freedoms of their citizens:

a)

France & Egypt

b)

Japan & Alaska

c)

India & China

d)

China & North Korea

16.

Which of the following is currently communist?

a)

China

b)

Mexico

c)

Italy

d)

Spain

17.
Property is owned by the state
a)
Communism
b)
Capitalism
18.
Press controlled and owned by the state
a)
Communism
b)
Capitalism
19.

What is the definition of socialism?

a)

The idea that the means of production, distribution and exchange should be owned and regulated by the community as a whole.

b)

The idea that all free men over the age of 21 of good standing should have the right to vote.

c)

The idea that women should have equal political, social and economic rights as men.

d)

The idea that a country’s trade and industry should be controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

20.

What is the radical version of socialism?

a)

Capitalism

b)

Feminism

c)

Nationalism

d)

Communism

21.

Another name for free enterprise is

a)

Market economy

b)

Command economy

c)

Communism

d)

Socialism