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China: The One Child Policy

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Government Policies designed to cut the Birth Rate are called ...

a)

Pre Natalist

b)

Anti Natalist

c)

Pro Natalist

d)

Post Natalist

2.

In which year was the One Child Policy initiated?

a)

1975

b)

1970

c)

1980

d)

1990

3.

China's anti natalist policy was called The ..?

a)

Some Child Policy

b)

No Child Policy

c)

One Child Policy

d)

Two Child Policy

4.

How many births are estimated to have been prevented by the One Child Policy?

a)

3, 000, 000, 000

b)

3, 000, 000

c)

300, 000, 000

d)

30, 000, 000

5.

Why did some farmers NOT follow the One Child Policy?

a)

Their religious beliefs encourage large families

b)

They needed a daughter to look after them in old age

c)

They needed sons to work and marry

d)

They didn't care

6.

How were farmers punished if they had more that one child

a)

They were called rude names

b)

They were imprisoned

c)

They had their house pulled down

d)

They were fined and had their house pulled down

7.

Why did middle class people sometimes choose to have an extra child?

a)

They were often out of the country

b)

They could afford the fine

c)

They needed sons to work in the computer industry

d)

They didn't care

8.

Which statement is a genuine unintended consequence of the One Child Policy?

a)

Women's fertility rate drops from 6.5 to 2.5

b)

300 million fewer births

c)

70 million unmarried men

d)

Increased access to healthcare and advise for poorer people

9.

Why is there an unbalanced sex ratio of 100 women to 115 men?

a)

Farmers tried to have boy babies

b)

The 'Sex Selective' abortion of girl babies

c)

People prefer boys

d)

It was a natural thing

10.

Why did farmers not want girl babies?

a)

They would marry and move in with her husband's family?

b)

Girls would go to University?

c)

They weren't strong enough?

d)

They only wanted to look after their grandparents?

11.

What piece of technology helped people find out the sex of their baby before birth?

a)

Stethoscope

b)

X-Ray Machine

c)

CT Scanner

d)

Ultrasound Scanner

12.

Why had the One Child Policy been altered to a 2 child policy in 2015?

a)

China's workforce is beginning to retire

b)

Farmers had asked for this to be changed

c)

China's Population was too imbalanced