Exam 12: South Asia

A) It was the site of a 1984 gas leak at a fertilizer factory that killed over 2,500 people.
B) It is the capital of India.
C) It is the major economic center of Pakistan.
D) It has the largest population in the world.
E) It is the town in which Mahatma Gandhi was born.

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A) Bangladesh gained its independence from India in 1971.
B) India is the world's seventh largest country based on land area.
C) India is mostly Hindu, but contains people of many faiths.
D) India was a former British colony.
E) India has nuclear weapons.

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A) tolerance
B) prayer
C) fasting
D) nonviolence
E) honesty

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A) to make them citizens of Pakistan
B) to expel them from the country
C) to retain the British policy, and allow them to maintain nearly full autonomy
D) to move the population to a location near the Indian border
E) ethnic cleansing

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A) Turkic-speaking Muslims from Central Asia
B) Saudi princes
C) Malaysian traders traveling the Silk Road
D) Persian warriors during the expansion of their empire
E) Afghan mujahedeen

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A) by the rifting (pulling apart) of the Eurasian Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate
B) by the collision of peninsular India with the Asian landmass
C) by the upwelling of molten matter from a hot spot beneath the Indian subcontinent
D) by the erosion of the landscape north and south of the region that would become the mountains
E) by volcanic activity

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B

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A) Bangladesh
B) Nepal
C) Pakistan
D) Sri Lanka
E) Bhutan

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A) a type of insect pest that threatens crops throughout South Asia
B) sprawling squatter settlements in South Asia
C) This is the name for the untouchable caste in Hindu South Asia.
D) citizen groups that lobby for better government services in Pakistan
E) the local name given to the monsoonal winds that plague Bangladesh

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B

A) lake
B) mountain
C) river
D) desert
E) a tropical forest

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A) along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
B) on the Deccan Plateau.
C) in the Ganges and Indus river valleys.
D) in the Thar Desert.
E) along the Vindhya Range.

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A) Electrical power is inadequate.
B) Many streets are routinely flooded during the wet season.
C) The economic base is declining.
D) A mixed Hindu-Muslim population generates ethnic tension.
E) It has poor quality educational institutions.

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A) the area of high rainfall found on the windy side of a mountain range
B) the area of low rainfall found on the windy side of a mountain range
C) the area of high rainfall found on the leeward (downwind) side of a mountain range
D) the area of low rainfall found on the leeward (downwind) side of a mountain range
E) the snow-capped peak of a mountain, where the temperatures are too cold for rain to fall

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A) was born into a wealthy family in northern India.
B) promised his followers an afterlife.
C) supported the caste system.
D) eventually converted to Hinduism.
E) founded Islam.

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A) in the north
B) in the south
C) in almost every part of the country
D) in the west
E) in the east

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A) poverty
B) water sanitation
C) air pollution
D) expansion of bustees
E) All of these answer choices are problems created by rapid urbanization.

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