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South/East Asia Unit Exam

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which country is letter G?

a)

India

b)

Pakistan

c)

Bangladesh

d)

Bhutan

2.

Which country is letter C?

a)

Nepal

b)

Maldives

c)

Bangladesh

d)

Bhutan

3.

What landform is this?

a)

Indus River

b)

Ganges River

c)

Tigris River

d)

Euphrates River

4.

What landform is this?

a)

Ganges River

b)

Indus River

c)

Tigris River

d)

Euphrates River

5.

What landform is this?

a)

Himalaya Mts

b)

Karakoram Mts

c)

Hindu Kush Mts

d)

Zagor Mts

6.

Which country in #8?

a)

Mongolia

b)

China

c)

Japan

d)

Korean Peninsula

7.

Which country is #9?

a)

China

b)

Mongolia

c)

Japan

d)

Korean Peninsula

8.

Which country is #12?

a)

Japan

b)

China

c)

Korean Peninsula

d)

Mongolia

9.

What is landform #1?

a)

Yellow River

b)

Yangze River

c)

Yellow Sea

d)

China

10.

What landform is #5?

a)

Yangze River

b)

Yellow River

c)

Tigris River

d)

Nile River

11.

_________________ is the largest mountain in the world, located in the Himalayan Mountains.

a)

Mt. Everest

b)

Mt. Fuji

c)

Mt. Karakorum

d)

K2

12.

All of these are major rivers in South Asia, EXCEPT:

a)

Indus

b)

Ganges

c)

Brahmaputra

d)

Yangze

13.

What are India's two largest resources?

a)

Coal and timber

b)

Coal and iron ore

c)

Iron ore and timber

d)

Iron ore and natural gas

14.

The South Asian peninsula is surrounded by all of these bodies of water, EXCEPT:

a)

Indian Ocean

b)

Bay of Bengal

c)

Arabian Sea

d)

Yellow Sea

15.

What is alluvial soil?

a)

enriched soil brought from the mountains

b)

useless soil that can grow nothing

c)

enriched soil from the ocean

d)

enriched soil from the volcanic islands of the Maldives

16.

The Ganges is often referred to as, Gangamai, which translates as...

a)

Mother Ganges

b)

Dirty River

c)

Ganges River

d)

Father Ganges

17.

What is the caste system?

a)

A system of social classes that divided people by occupation

b)

A system of social classes that divided people by religion

c)

A system of social classes that divided people by skin color

d)

A system of social classes that divided people by reincarnation

18.

How does one become joined forever with Brahman?

a)

Reincarnate until your soul is "clean and pure"

b)

Reincarnate until your soul is "without suffering"

c)

Reincarnate until your soul is "Brahman"

d)

Reincarnate until your soul is "reborn in the lowest caste"

19.

Who is Siddhartha Gautama?

a)

Brahman

b)

Vishnu

c)

Buddha

d)

Chandragupta

20.

What are the Four Noble Truths?

a)

From birth to death, life is filled with suffering

b)

From birth to death, life is filled with pleasure

c)

From birth to death, life is filled with Brahman

d)

From birth to death, life is filled with Buddha

21.

Buddhist reach ________________ at the end of their reincarnations.

a)

Nirvana

b)

Heaven

c)

Brahman

d)

Valhalla

22.

How did Asoka help spread Buddhism?

a)

Monasteries

b)

Missionaries

c)

Religious tolerance

d)

All of these answers

23.

What does Hinduism mean?

a)

The religion of the people of India

b)

The religion of the people of South Asia

c)

The religion of the people of Brahman

d)

The religion of the people of Buddha

24.

_______________ - a person's actions have consequences in this or future lives.

a)

Karma

b)

Reincarnation

c)

Upanishads

d)

Nirvana

25.

What new religion was born as Islam spread into South Asia?

a)

Sikhism

b)

Buddhism

c)

Daoism

d)

Hinduism

26.

What company did the British use to gain control of India?

a)

East India Company

b)

West India Company

c)

British Army

d)

British Fur Trading

27.

Who promoted the removal of the British Empire from India?

a)

Mohandas Ghandi

b)

Siddhartha Gautama

c)

Chandragupta

d)

Brahman

28.

What happened as a result of partition?

a)

Ethnic conflict broke out

b)

Religious conflict broke out

c)

Ethnic and religious conflict broke out

d)

Everyone moved to new countries peacefully

29.

Based on the film "Girl Rising", what challenges do girls face in Asia? (At least 5 sentences for credit)

4 lines
30.

What desert stretches from northwest China into Mongolia?

a)

Gobi Desert

b)

Taklimakan Desert

c)

Thar Desert

d)

There is no desert there

31.

What are the two major rivers in China?

a)

Yellow River and Yangtze River

b)

Yangtze River and Indus River

c)

Yangtze River and Ganges River

d)

Yellow River and Mekong River

32.

This island was once a British Colony and now continues to fight for independence from China.

a)

Taiwan

b)

Hong Kong

c)

Japan

d)

South Korea

33.

What limits the amount of land for agriculture in East Asia?

a)

Several mountain ranges

b)

Several rivers

c)

Several deserts

d)

Several rain forests

34.

China and Korea both have reserves of this resource.

a)

Coal

b)

Iron Ore

c)

Natural Gas

d)

Hydroelectric Power

35.

What is a benefit of the Three Gorges Dam?

a)

Control Flooding

b)

Hydroelectric Power

c)

Ships can reach interior

d)

All answers are correct

36.

The writing system that is still used today in China and Japan, developed during which dynasty?

a)

Shang Dynasty

b)

Zhou Dynasty

c)

Qin Dynasty

d)

Han Dynasty

37.

When heaven supports your dynasty and the conquering of new lands, what is this called?

a)

Mandate of Heaven

b)

Mandate of God

c)

Mandate of Zhou

d)

Mandate of Brahman

38.

Who is China's very first Shi Huangdi?

a)

Zheng

b)

Shang Yang

c)

Chen Sheng

d)

Zhou

39.

The First Emperor implemented Legalism, which included what?

a)

Heavy taxes

b)

Required labor

c)

Single set of laws

d)

All are correct answers

40.

What do ethnic Chinese still call themselves today?

a)

Han

b)

Zhou

c)

Shang

d)

Qin

41.

What was the name of the first state in Korea?

a)

Choson

b)

Yayoi

c)

Jomon

d)

Koguryo

42.

What did the Yayoi introduce in Japan?

a)

Rice farming

b)

Wheat farming

c)

Shinto

d)

Mahayana Buddhism

43.

Which philosopher believed in the idea of filial piety?

a)

Confucius

b)

Han Fei Zu

c)

Laozi

d)

None of these

44.

Which philosopher believed that all humans are naturally evil?

a)

Confucius

b)

Han Fei Zu

c)

Laozi

d)

None of these

45.

Daoism preaches...

a)

give up all world possessions

b)

become one with nature

c)

find balance

d)

All answers are correct

46.

To help them govern, the Tang and the Song relied on ______________________.

a)

bureaucracy

b)

legalism

c)

slavery

d)

democracy

47.

What helped make China so wealthy?

a)

Trade along the Silk Road

b)

Trade along the Grand Canal

c)

Trade along the Silk Road AND Grand Canal

d)

Trade along the Silk Road AND Indian Ocean Trade

48.

What were the Mongols good at?

a)

Archery and riding horses

b)

Archery and spreading disease

c)

Riding horses and spreading disease

d)

They were good at nothing

49.

Where did the Mongolian Empire spread?

a)

Mongolia to the Caspian Sea

b)

Mongolia to the Mediterranean Sea

c)

Mongolia to the Red Sea

d)

Mongolia to the Arabian Sea

50.

What did the Mongols adapt from China, which helped them conquer more territories?

a)

Gunpowder

b)

Paper

c)

Siesometer

d)

Cross bow

51.

Who defeated the Mongols?

a)

Ming dynasty

b)

Song dynasty

c)

Tang dynasty

d)

Zhou dynasty

52.

What did the Koreans invent during the 1200's?

a)

Moveable-type printing

b)

Paper

c)

Alphabet Hangul

d)

Common currency

53.

Who controlled Japan's government for most of its history?

a)

Shoguns

b)

Mongols

c)

Manchus

d)

Emperors

54.

What religion was founded in Japan?

a)

Mahayana Buddhism

b)

Daoism

c)

Confucianism

d)

Shinto

55.

What specific resource did the British force China to trade?

a)

Opium

b)

Silk

c)

Timber

d)

Tea

56.

Al of these were goals of the Meiji Restoration, EXCEPT:

a)

Modernize Japan

b)

Modernize the government

c)

Industrialize

d)

Modernize agriculture

57.

Who did the United States drop two atomic bombs on during WWII?

a)

China

b)

Taiwan

c)

South Korea

d)

Japan

58.

What happened during the Great Leap Forward?

a)

China industrialized

b)

Millions starved to death

c)

Millions fled China

d)

China improved their government

59.

What is the demography issue in Japan?

a)

Less babies are born, more people are retiring

b)

Less people are retiring, more babies are born

c)

The number of babies and retirees are the same

d)

There are no babies being born or people retiring

60.

Occurring under the sea cause huge waves which flood coastal plains, what is this called?

a)

Water tornado

b)

Hurricane

c)

Tsunami

d)

Tidal wave