Chapter 8 Geography
Economic growth in the South Asian realm has come about mostly as a result of ___________. a) a free trade agreement with the United States b) increased trade with China c) an emphasis on modernizing agriculture d) migration to the United Kingdom and the United States e) neoliberal reforms
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. India's government is ___________ . A) Communist B) Democratic C) Authoritatian D) An Islamic Republic E) Green
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A newly developing regional economic disparity in India has opened between ____________. a) Hindu and Muslim areas b) east and west c) north and south d) the coastal zone and the interior e) uplands and riverine lowlands
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An area whose control is hotly disputed by India and Pakistan is _____________. a) Punjab b) Jammu and Kashmir c) Bangladesh d) northern Sri Lanka e) the Tribal Areas
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Dominant crops in India's agricultural system include all but which of the following? a) wheat b) soybeans c) rice d) millet e) chickpeas
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In 1947, British India was partitioned into which of the following states? a) the Punjab and Asom b) India and Pakistan c) Kashmir and Afghanistan d) Ceylon and Sri Lanka e) Bangladesh and East Pakistan
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Which of the following provinces of Pakistan received the largest groups of refugees from Afghanistan? a) Sindh b) Punjab c) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa d) Kashmir e) Baluchistan
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East Pakistan became Bangladesh in ___________. a) 1485 b) 1857 c) 1947 d) 1971 e) 1991
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India's IT industry is concentrated in several major cities throughout the country. In which of the following is it NOT significant? a) Bengaluru b) Hyderabad c) (New) Delhi d) Kolkata e) Mumbai
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India's IT industry is concentrated in several major cities throughout the country. In which of the following is it not significant? A) Bengaluru B) Hyderabad C) (New) Delhi D) Kolkata E) Mumbai
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Of India's more than 1 billion population, about _____ million are Muslims. a) 7 b) 60 c) 115 d) 180 e) 320
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The basalt plateau that extends across most of southern India is known as the __________. a) Ghats b) Maldives c) Sindh d) Deccan e) Malabar
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The caste system is most associated with which of the following religions: a) Mauryanism b) Islam c) Buddhism d) Hinduism e) Sanskrit
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The major river of Pakistan is the ______________. a) Tigris b) Ganges c) Brahmaputra d) Indus e) Irrawaddy
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The small group of islands 400 miles southwest of India are the _____________. a) Tamils b) SriLankans c) Dravidians d) Maldives e) Colombos
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Which of the following associations is INCORRECT? a) Sri Lanka and Colombo b) Bangladesh and Dhaka c) Nepal and Kathmandu d) Pakistan and Delhi e) Bhutan and Thimphu
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Which of the following countries in the South Asian Realm has not had a female Prime Minister? A) Sri Lanka B) India C) BangladeshD) Nepal E) Pakistan
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Which of the following countries in the South Asian realm has NOT had a female prime minister? a) Sri Lanka b) India c) Bangladesh d) Nepal e) Pakistan
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Bangladesh was formerly known as _____________. a) East Pakistan b) East India c) Ceylon d) West Pakistan e) Burma
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Hindutva _____________________. A) is a ovement that promotes Hindu nationalism, heritage, and/ or patriotism B) is a sect of the Hindu religion that practices yoga C) is the Hindu holy site in the north of the country D) are recent converts from Islam E) is the language people in India speak
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Hindutva _is (are) ____________________. a) a movement that promotes Hindu nationalism, heritage, and/or patriotism b) a sect of the Hindu religion that practices yoga c) the Hindu holy site in the north of the country d) recent converts from Islam e) the language people in India speak
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India's Sikh population is concentrated in _____________. a) Punjab b) Asom c) the far south d) the Mumbai area e) the Ganges Delta
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India's Sikh population is concentrated in: A) Punjab B) Asom C) the far south D) the Mumbai area E) the Ganges Delta
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The Bay of Bengal coast of India is also called the __________. a) Coromandel-Golconda Coast b) Ghat Coast c) Malabar-Konkan Coast d) Deccan Coast e) Chota Nagpur
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The approximate percentage of India's population that lives in urban areas is ____________. a) 30 b) 55 c) 70 d) 85 e) 95
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The area of India in which the tensions continue over border demarcation is ________. a) Jammu and Kashmir b) the Bombay (Mumbai) metropolitan region c) the central Gangetic Plain d) the States to the northeast of Bangladesh e) the southernmost States of the peninsula
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The belt of river lowlands that extends across northern South Asia lies between _________ and ________. a) the Himalaya; the Deccan plateau b) the Ganges; Indus rivers c) the Eastern Ghats; Western Ghats d) Pakistan; Bangladesh e) Punjab; Baluchistan Desert
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The city located closest to the Ganges Delta is _________________. a) Kolkata (Calcutta) b) New Delhi c) Chennai (Madras) d) Brahmanputra e) Karachi
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The majority of India's languages belong to the language family known as __________. a) Indo-European b) Dravidian c) Sino-Tibetan d) Austro-Asiatic e) Malay-Polynesian
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The physiologic density of India is ________ the arithmetic population density. a) greater than b) less than c) equal to d) the inverse of e) directly proportional to
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Which city lost a good part of its hinterland to (then) Pakistan in the partitioning of British India? A) Calcutta (Kolkata) B) Bombay (Mumbai) C) New Delhi D) Madras (Chennai) E) Karachi
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Which of the following is NOT an Indo-European language? a) Telugu b) Hindi c) Bengali d) Punjabi e) Gujarati
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Which of the following is NOT located in Pakistan? a) Deccan Plateau b) Sind c) Punjab d) Islamabad e) Karachi
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Which of the following is the core area of Pakistan? a) Punjab b) Sindh c) the Indus Delta d) the Tribal Areas e) Baluchistan
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. Dominant crops in India's agricultural system include all but which of the following? A) Wheat B) Soybeans C) Rice D) Millet E) Chickpeas
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In comparing India with China, which statement is INCORRECT? a) India's population growth rate continues to grow, whereas China's is starting to shrink. b) India has a larger middle class than China. c) The Chinese economy employs more people in manufacturing than does India's. d) India's IT industry is more important than China's. e) India's government is open and democratic, whereas China's is communist.
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India's government is __________ . a) communist b) democratic c) authoritarian d) an Islamic Republic e) green
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The Buddhist majority population of Sri Lanka is known as the ____________. a) Ceylonese b) Sinhalese c) Tamil Tigers d) Mauryans e) Eelams
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The Muslim minority constitutes approximately ___ % of the total population of India. A) 10 B) 15 C) 20 D) 30 E) 45
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The Muslim minority constitutes approximately ___ percent of the total population of India. a) 10 b) 15 c) 20 d) 30 e) 45
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The coastal edges of the Deccan plateau are marked by highlands known as _______________. a) Malabars b) Ghats c) Aryans d) Konkans e) Hindu Kushes
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The direct administration of India by the British government (the raj) lasted for _____________. a) 18 years b) 90 years c) 124 years d) 163 years through 2009, and still continues e) 247 years
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The priestly caste in India is known as the ______________. a) Hindutva b) Brahmans c) Touchables d) Sikhs e) Dalits
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The so-called Tribal Areas are located in which province of Pakistan? a) Sindh b) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa c) Kashmir d) Punjab e) Baluchistan
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The untouchable caste in India is known as the ________________. a) Hindu Kushes b) Harijans c) Brahmans d) Sikhs e) Tamils
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Which State is located in southern India? a) Orissa b) Kerala c) Uttar Pradesh d) Kashmir e) Maharashtra
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Which State is located in southern India? A) Orissa B) Kerala C) Uttar Pradesh D) Kashmir E) Maharashtra
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Which of the following cities is NOT connected to the Golden Quadrilateral superhighway that links India's main urban centers? a) Mumbai b) Dhaka c) Delhi d) Kolkata e) Chennai
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Which of the following is NOT one of India's newer States? a) Chhattisgarh b) Punjab c) Jharkhand d) Uttarakhand e) Telangana
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Which of the following is not one of India's newer States? A) Chhattisgarh B) Punjab C) Jharkhand D) Uttarakhand E) Telangana
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Which of the following statements about Nepal is INCORRECT? a) Deforestation is a problem. b) Agriculture is a success story. c) The Himalayas are its dominant physical feature. d) It is currently a failed state. e) Kathmandu is located in the country's core area.
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Which of the following statements about agriculture in India is INCORRECT? a) Wheat is grown in areas that are not moist enough to support rice cultivation. b) Wheat is grown in the east while rice dominates in the west. c) About half of rural families own less than 1 ha of land. d) India contains more than 600,000 villages that cannot be accessed by truck or car. e) India's agricultural population is still larger than its urban population.
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Which of the following statements is incorrect? A) East Pakistan freed itself from its political bonds with West Pakistan and became independent as Bangladesh. B) Kashmir achieved independence from Pakistan after a long, struggle. C) Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka. D) India has shifted State boundaries to accommodate regional and local demands. E) Pakistan moved its capital from Karachi to Islamabad.
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During the twentieth century, 8 of the 10 costliest natural disasters in the world struck ___________. a) India b) Indonesia c) Bangladesh d) Pakistan e) Sri Lanka
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India today is probably in the ______ stage of its demographic transition. a) first b) second c) third d) fourth e) final
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Islam's earliest and fullest conversion of people in the South Asia Realm was in the ____________. a) Ganges Valley b) Deccan Plateau c) Indus Valley d) Western Ghats e) Malabar Coast
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Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam are __________________. a) border provinces of India, facing the Arabian Sea b) four major cities in Pakistan, all with over 250,000 inhabitants c) four leading Dravidian languages spoken in southern India d) the political divisions of Bangladesh, created after independence in 1963 e) four sultans under whose consecutive dynasties Islam achieved dominance over the entire South Asian realm
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The reason for Bangladesh's vulnerability to natural disasters is its ______________________. a) mountainous terrain subject to debris flows b) location on the Pacific Ring of Fire c) lowland physiography d) proximity to volcanoes e) frequent earthquakes
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The southwestern Arabian Sea coast of India is known as the ______________. a) Coromandel Coast b) Maldive Coast c) Malabar Coast d) Deccan Coast e) Golconda Coast
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The two countries of South Asia's Mountainous North are ___________. a) Sri Lanka and Ceylon b) Pakistan and Bangladesh c) Nepal and Bhutan d) Asom and Punjab e) Jammu and Kashmir
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Which of the following countries does NOT share a common border with Pakistan? a) Iran b) China c) Bangladesh d) Afghanistan e) India
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Which of the following countries does not share a common border with Pakistan? A) Iran B) China C) Bangladesh D) Afghanistan E) India
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Economic growth in the South Asian realm has come about mostly as a result of ___________.A) a free trade agreement with the US B) increased trade with China C) an emphasis on modernizing agriculture D) migration to the united Kingdom and the US E) neoliberal reforms
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The country located immediately northwest of India is __________. a) China b) Kashmir c) Bangladesh d) Afghanistan e) Pakistan
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The first indigenous empire in the South Asian realm was the: A) Aryan B) Gupta C) Dravidian D) Mogul E) Mauryan
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Which of the following cities is located in Pakistan's Sindh region? a) Dhaka b) Kabol c) Islamabad d) Lahore e) Karachi
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Which of the following industries spearheaded the economic development of Bengaluru (Bangalore) over the past decade? a) coal mining b) oil refining c) textiles d) automobile assembly e) information technology
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