South Asia Unit Test

Question 1

Name the largest city in Pakistan:

Answer 1

Karachi

Question 2

Name the largest city in India:

Answer 2

Mumbai

Question 3

What is the capital of India?:

Answer 3

New Delhi

Question 4

What is the capital Pakistan?:

Answer 4

Islamabad

Question 5

What is the capital of Bangladesh?:

Answer 5

Dhaka

Question 6

What is the capital of Nepal?:

Answer 6

Kathmandu

Question 7

What is the capital of Afghanistan?:

Answer 7

Kabul

Question 8

What is the capital of Bhutan?:

Answer 8

Thimphu

Question 9

Why has Afghanistan been so difficult, or impossible, to govern successfully over the centuries?:

Answer 9

Because of lack of resources (for infrastructure, things that a government needs), landscape, drought, and different languages (many different ethnic groups)

Question 10

Where had bin Laden been operating before returning to Afghanistan? What had he previously done in Afghanistan?:

Answer 10

Sudan, previously mujahideen who helped fight back against Soviet Invasion

Question 11

Define Caste system:

Answer 11

fixed layers in society, determined by karma from previous life

Question 12

Define Double-cropping:

Answer 12

to raise two crops per year on (an area of land).

Question 13

Why are/were there 4 million Afghan Pashtun refugees living in Pakistan? How did they get there?:

Answer 13

they fled major wars in Afghanistan, such as the Soviet-Afghan war

Question 14

What are Pakistan’s main concerns when it comes to the Kashmir area? What are India’s concerns?:

Answer 14

• Pakistan: human rights (self determination)// Majority of Kashmir people are Muslim, therefore Pakistan argues free choice should deliver Kashmir to Pakistan. // also Indian control of irrigation water from Indus river that is needed in Pakistan.
• India: India has invested heavily in building infrastructure in Kashmir since UN decision to deliver 60% to India, 30% to Pakistan, and 10% to China

Question 15

What do the terms nationalism, non-violent resistance, and boycott have to do with Mohandas Gandhi? (Show you understand what Gandhi’s life’s work was about):

Answer 15

• Indian nationalism rose in the early 20th century – India wanted independence from Britain
• Gandhi promoted non-violent resistance as means for accomplishing this
• Boycott - refusing to purchase (British goods), Fasting – galvanized country in support of the cause

Question 16

How are karma and samsara related to the Caste System?:

Answer 16

Samsara= cycle of being reborn (Hinduism)
In Hinduism/India, it is a widely held belief that your karma, whether good or bad, affects what social class you will be born into in your next life (Caste system in India)

Question 17

What do Hindu fundamentalists want?:

Answer 17

Hindu fundamentalists want the Caste system to remain a thing in India

Question 18

List 3 centripetal (unifying) forces in India:

Answer 18

• Cultural strength of Hinduism
• Democracy & its democratic institutions
• Strong leadership
• India’s (Hindu’s) capacity for accommodating change (flexibility)

Question 19

What factors account for a decline in death rate in India?:

Answer 19

• improved medical services
• soap became common
• more effective food distribution
• urbanization
• farm production expanded

Question 20

What is the dominant religion in Bangladesh?:

Answer 20

Approx 90% Muslim

Question 21

What is the dominant religion in Bhutan?:

Answer 21

Buddhism

Question 22

What is the dominant religion in Nepal?:

Answer 22

Hindu

Question 23

Aside from Indonesia, this country is home to the greatest number of Muslims:

Answer 23

Pakistan

Question 24

The country with the highest per capita GDP in South Asia:

Answer 24

Sri Lanka

Question 25

The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from this capital city:

Answer 25

Kabul

Question 26

The country with the smallest population in South Asia, about 300,000 people:

Answer 26

The Maldives

Question 27

Though not its capital, its is India's largest city and one of three Indian cities ranked in the world's top 12 in population:

Answer 27

Mumbai (Bombay)

Question 28

These treacherous mountains in Afghanistan and Pakistan provide a major advantage to the defenders of the area against foreign invaders:

Answer 28

Hindu Kush

Question 29

Bangladesh is built around the deltas of these two great rivers:

Answer 29

the Ganges and the Brahmaputra

Question 30

The two great rivers that share a delta in Bangladesh flow into this body of water:

Answer 30

The Bay of Bengal

Question 31

Near where Osama bin Laden crossed into Pakistan, it is the path that 4 million Pashtun Afghans took when fleeing Soviet rule in the 1980s:

Answer 31

Khyber Pass

Question 32

The physical feature between the Eastern and Western Ghats is referred to as this:

Answer 32

Deccan Plateau

Question 33

China has been better able to stabilize its population growth due to this aspect of their government's authority:

Answer 33

Totalitarian and Communist rule

Question 34

The river that caused controversy between India and Pakistan:

Answer 34

Indus River

Question 35

A country that separates two political enemies:

Answer 35

Buffer state

Question 36

The official name for Jihadists or Islamic holy warriors who fought in the first modern defensive jihad in Afghanistan against the Soviets:

Answer 36

Mujahideen

Question 37

Growth of crops for the family only, rather than for sale is known as this type of farming – that 95% of the Nepalese engage in:

Answer 37

Subsistence farming

Question 38

The lowest status possible in the Caste System:

Answer 38

the untouchables

Question 39

Non-violent resistance and boycotts are actions often associated with this great Indian historical figure:

Answer 39

Mohandas Gandhi ("The Mahatma")

Question 40

The "students of religion" from Pakistan who took over Afghanistan with the intent of ending its chronic factionalism:

Answer 40

The Taliban

Question 41

The term for the people in Nepal that guide tourists up the mountains:

Answer 41

Sherpas

Question 42

The Afghan tribe that comprises 40% of Afghanistan's population:

Answer 42

The Pashtuns

Question 43

Regional Indian leaders were referred to as this, and the most notorious one was the one who chose to align Kashmir with India rather than Pakistan:

Answer 43

Maharajah

Question 44

Pakistan established its capital here, which is much closer to India than Pakistan's largest city is; they did this as a statement to India, making this city a "forward capital":

Answer 44

Islamabad

Question 45

This is the reason that Sri Lanka has failed to become an economic power of the Indian Ocean:

Answer 45

civil war

Question 46

The cease-fire line between Pakistan and India in the Kashmir region is known as this:

Answer 46

Line of Control

Question 47

Along with strict Islamic law, the presence of this source of revenue attracted Islamic extremists to Afghanistan in the mid-1990s:

Answer 47

The Opium trade

Question 48

This common trait among bitter enemies, India and Pakistan, is the reason their rivalry is now a global issue, not merely a local conflict:

Answer 48

Nuclear weapons

Question 49

This new country was created when East and West Pakistan simply became Pakistan:

Answer 49

Bangladesh

Question 50

This crime-ridden coastal city is Pakistan's largest city and the 5th most populous city in the world (not including metropolitan areas), bigger than any U.S. city:

Answer 50

Karachi

Question 51

Bhutan has this type of government:

Answer 51

Monarchy

Question 52

Osama bin Laden arrived in Afghanistan in 1996 after secretly leaving this country:

Answer 52

Sudan

Question 53

The border region of Kashmir exploded in violence in the late 1990s thanks to the newly trained fighters sent by... (what or whom):

Answer 53

Osama bin Laden / Al Qaeda