Deck 13: Southeast Asia

Question 1

Which of the following natural hazards is/are prevalent in the Philippines?

A) flooding
B) mudslides
C) typhoons
D) volcanoes
E) all of the above

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Which country of Southeast Asia lies both on the mainland and in the islands of the region?

A) Vietnam
B) Brunei
C) Malaysia
D) Singapore
E) Laos

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What type of climate dominates in most of insular Southeast Asia?

A) occasionally hot and humid
B) constantly hot and dry
C) constantly cool and humid
D) constantly cool and dry
E) constantly hot and humid

Answer 3

E

Question 4

How long does Southeast Asia's hot and rainy season last?

A) from February to April
B) from May to October
C) from March to August
D) from December to February
E) from September to December

Question 5

What country in Southeast Asia is a city-state?

A) Singapore
B) Malaysia
C) Indonesia
D) Burma
E) Thailand

Question 6

How long does Southeast Asia's dry and hot season last?

A) from May to October
B) from February to April
C) from March to August
D) from November to April
E) from September to December

Question 7

On mainland Southeast Asia,what is the most common crop in the lowlands?

A) rubber
B) coconuts
C) rice
D) sugarcane
E) opium poppies

Question 8

Where is the population in Vietnam concentrated?

A) in the mountains bordering Laos
B) in the deltas of the Mekong and Red Rivers
C) on the central coastal plain
D) in the north, near the Chinese border
E) near its borders with Laos and Cambodia

Question 9

By what other name is Kalimantan also known?

A) Borneo
B) Luzon
C) Java
D) The Malay Peninsula
E) Sumatra

Question 10

Of what material is the Khorat Plateau composed?

A) granite
B) limestone
C) volcanic soil
D) sandstone
E) coral

Question 11

What factor causes Southeast Asia's role in climate change to be larger than it appears at first glance?

A) the region's rapidly growing industrial sector
B) deforestation's effect on greenhouse gases in the region
C) the region's equatorial location
D) the large number of islands in the region
E) the oil industry in the region

Question 12

On which island of Indonesia are the forests still extensive?

A) New Guinea
B) Kalimantan
C) Sumatra
D) Java
E) Borneo

Question 13

Which country in Southeast Asia contains the largest number of islands?

A) Indonesia
B) Malaysia
C) Philippines
D) Thailand
E) Burma

Question 14

Which of the following factors did NOT contribute to recent air pollution in Southeast Asia?

A) A severe drought turned forests into tinderboxes.
B) Commercial logging includes burning to clear the land.
C) rapidly growing cities in Southeast Asia
D) release of toxic gases from a fertilizer factory
E) increasing automobile traffic

Question 15

What activity has placed the greatest pressure on the forests of Southeast Asia?

A) local people cutting hardwood trees to build homes
B) indigenous people clearing areas of the forest for agricultural use
C) powerful typhoons
D) industrial development and its resulting pollution
E) international commercial logging

Question 16

"Insular" Southeast Asia refers to which of the following locations?

A) countries located on peninsulas
B) countries located on islands
C) countries located on mainland Southeast Asia
D) countries located on mountains
E) countries located in the interior regions of a continent

Question 17

What geological feature is associated with the islands of Sumatra,Java,and the Lesser Sunda Islands?

A) earthquakes
B) erosion
C) karst topography
D) volcanic activity
E) all of the above

Question 18

What is the major difference between the two types of tropical climates found in Southeast Asia?

A) the temperature
B) the seasonal distribution of temperature
C) the seasonal distribution of rainfall
D) the total amount of rainfall
E) the prevalence of fog

Question 19

What is the longest river in Southeast Asia?

A) Mekong
B) Irrawaddy
C) Red River
D) Chao Phraya
E) Salween

Question 20

Indonesia's islands stretch for a length that is about the same distance as the mileage between which of the following pairs of cities?

A) New York to Boston
B) New York to Indianapolis
C) New York to Denver
D) New York to San Francisco
E) New York to Philadelphia

Question 21

What is the most densely settled island of Indonesia?

A) Borneo
B) Java
C) Sumatra
D) Bali
E) Luzon

Question 22

Which Southeast Asian country is primarily Roman Catholic?

A) the Philippines
B) Indonesia
C) Thailand
D) Brunei
E) Vietnam

Question 23

Which of the following factors helps to explain the historical lack of settlement in Southeast Asia?

A) tremendous out-migration
B) infertile soil
C) lack of transportation system in the region
D) centuries of civil war
E) all of the above

Question 24

What country of Southeast Asia is the most highly urbanized?

A) Burma
B) Singapore
C) Vietnam
D) the Philippines
E) Cambodia

Question 25

What country is the world's most populous Muslim country and also has the largest population in the Southeast Asia?

A) Burma
B) Indonesia
C) Philippines
D) Malaysia
E) Saudi Arabia

Question 26

What country near the region of Southeast Asia has sent a very large number of immigrants to Southeast Asia?

A) China
B) Japan
C) New Zealand
D) Papua-New Guinea
E) Tasmania

Question 27

Which of the following conditions is relatively common in Southeast Asia?

A) major conurbations
B) a megalopolis
C) counterurbanization
D) primate cities
E) gentrification

Question 28

In what Southeast Asian country is transmigration most common,and a policy of the national government?

A) Cambodia
B) Malaysia
C) Philippines
D) Indonesia
E) Thailand

Question 29

What group of people brought Islam to Southeast Asia?

A) Muslim missionaries
B) Muslim warriors
C) Muslim scholars
D) Muslim sailors
E) Muslim merchants

Question 30

What is the most densely settled island of the Philippines?

A) Mindanao
B) Samar
C) Negros
D) Luzon
E) Palawan

Question 31

What agricultural system is sometimes referred to as "slash and burn"?

A) swidden
B) commercial agriculture
C) plantation agriculture
D) rice cultivation
E) intensive subsistence

Question 32

What country has the highest population in Southeast Asia?

A) Burma
B) Vietnam
C) the Philippines
D) Indonesia
E) Laos

Question 33

What is the chief product of the "Golden Triangle" of Southeast Asia?

A) bananas
B) electronics
C) heroin
D) gold
E) rice

Question 34

What is transmigration?

A) It is a migration of refugees from one nation to another.
B) It is a long period of migration stagnation, when a nation's population remains in one region for a significantly long period of time.
C) It is a government-implemented policy forbidding emigration from a nation in any form.
D) It is the forced movement of certain citizens to concentration camps.
E) It is the relocation of a nation's population from one location to another within its national territory.

Question 35

What is the major reason for animosity toward Chinese immigrants in the countries of Southeast Asia?

A) Many of Chinese immigrants are rather prosperous compared to the locals.
B) Many Chinese immigrants continue to spread communist propaganda throughout the region.
C) Chinese immigrants believe that they are racially superior to Southeast Asians.
D) Chinese communities in Southeast Asia are very poor and are placing an economic burden on Southeast Asian taxpayers.
E) Chinese immigrants are willing to work for very low wages, and are taking jobs away from the citizens of Southeast Asian countries.

Question 36

Which of the following is NOT one of the major external cultural influences on Southeast Asia?

A) immigrants from India
B) indentured workers from Japan
C) migrants from China
D) Muslim merchants from South Asia
E) European colonialists

Question 37

Swidden agriculture

A) has benefited significantly from logging operations.
B) is most common on coastal plains.
C) works best in regions of medium to high population density.
D) usually relies on monocrop production.
E) depletes soil nutrients within a few years.

Question 38

What country of Southeast Asia has the region's lowest total Fertility Rate-a rate so low (below replacement level)that its population may soon begin to decline?

A) Burma
B) Cambodia
C) Malaysia
D) Vietnam
E) Singapore

Question 39

Under what conditions is swidden cultivation sustainable?

A) when the government intervenes to control land use
B) when private entities purchase land for development
C) when population densities remain relatively low and stable, and where practitioners of swidden control an adequate amount of land
D) when there is a large number of people to do the hard, manual labor associated with swidden
E) when long-term weather patterns provide adequate moisture and warmth

Question 40

What religion did the indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia practice before the arrival of religions from elsewhere?

A) Animism
B) Christianity
C) Buddhism
D) Islam
E) Hinduism

Question 41

Of the following countries in Southeast Asia,which one has been most receptive to western influences?

A) Malaysia
B) the Philippines
C) Burma
D) Singapore
E) Vietnam

Question 42

In 2011,this country was ranked along with Afghanistan as the third most corrupt country in the world.

A) Burma
B) Indonesia
C) Vietnam
D) Laos
E) East Timor

Question 43

About how many distinct languages are spoken in Indonesia?

A) 1
B) 5
C) 10
D) 25
E) 50

Question 44

The Vietnam War

A) ended with American victory.
B) resulted in a reunified Vietnam.
C) put an end to the brutal policies of the Khmer Rouge.
D) began in the late 1960s.
E) originally involved Spain and Vietnam.

Question 45

With what Southeast Asian country were the Khmer Rouge guerrillas associated?

A) Indonesia
B) Malaysia
C) Philippines
D) Cambodia
E) Thailand

Question 46

The recently independent country of East Timor was formerly part of what country of Southeast Asia?

A) Vietnam
B) the Philippines
C) Malaysia
D) Indonesia
E) Thailand

Question 47

Who are the Karen?

A) aside from the Hmong, the second largest tribal group in Laos
B) a tribal people of upland Burma
C) the current rulers of Burma
D) Cambodians who have been expelled from their homeland and forced to reside in Thailand
E) the royal family of Thailand

Question 48

What language did Philippine nationalists choose as a language to unite their country?

A) Tagalog
B) English
C) Spanish
D) French
E) Malay

Question 49

The Philippines

A) has banned migration to other countries.
B) has the second highest PPP in Southeast Asia.
C) owes much of its lack of economic success to the policies and corruption of Ferdinand Marcos.
D) hosts several important American naval bases.
E) has a communist economic system.

Question 50

What is education like in Southeast Asia?

A) emphasis on basic and technical education, but inadequate attention given to graduate-school education
B) a good education system, including basic, technical, and university education
C) an inadequate education system, with little attention paid to basic education, and even less to technical and university education
D) emphasis on basic education, but inadequate attention given to university and technical education
E) emphasis on basic and university education, but inadequate attention given to technical education

Question 51

The Spratly Islands

A) may possess major oil deposits.
B) are mountainous and rugged.
C) have been a major cause of disunity within ASEAN.
D) are occupied by the Philippines.
E) are one of the largest chains in Southeast Asia.

Question 52

What are the economic and political systems like in Vietnam?

A) It embraces market economics and a democratic government.
B) It rejects market economics, while retaining the political forms of a communist state.
C) It embraces market economics, while retaining the political forms of a communist state.
D) It rejects both market economics and the political forms of a communist state.
E) It had adopted a regulated economic system, along with a socialist-democratic political form.

Question 53

The Vietnam War started when which European country tried to retain control of its Southeast Asian colonies?

A) Great Britain
B) Spain
C) France
D) United States
E) the Dutch

Question 54

What kind of economic activity has the Indonesian government been trying to foster in order to improve its economy?

A) technologically oriented businesses
B) automobile assembly
C) back office work
D) pharmaceuticals
E) steel industry

Question 55

During the Vietnam War,with which country did North Vietnam ally itself?

A) France
B) United States
C) Japan
D) China
E) Spain

Question 56

What country has Vietnam emulated as it works to improve its economy?

A) United States
B) China
C) South Korea
D) Japan
E) India

Question 57

Who were the first Europeans to arrive in Southeast Asia to colonize the region?

A) British
B) Dutch
C) Portuguese
D) French
E) Spanish

Question 58

Vietnam

A) ruled China until about 1000 A.D.
B) still uses Chinese ideographs for written communication.
C) adopted many aspects of Confucianism.
D) was once a Hindu kingdom.
E) is a province of China.

Question 59

According to the domino theory,if Vietnam fell to the communists,the two next countries to fall to communism would be

A) China and Taiwan.
B) Burma and Thailand.
C) Malaysia and Indonesia.
D) Laos and Cambodia.
E) the United States and Mexico.

Question 60

Modern-day Indonesia was once a colony of which European country?

A) Great Britain
B) France
C) United States
D) Netherlands
E) Spain

Question 61

Plantation agriculture is sometimes referred to as "slash and burn."

Question 62

Singapore has a birthrate so low (below replacement level)that its population may soon begin to decline.

Question 63

The approximate population of Southeast Asia is 600 million.

Question 64

The most densely settled island of Indonesia is Bali.

Question 65

Vietnam is the most urbanized country in Southeast Asia,and is 100 percent urbanized.

Question 66

As of 2012,the world's two largest rice exporters were Thailand and Vietnam.

Question 67

The chief product of the "Golden Triangle" of Southeast Asia is gold.

Question 68

The highest total fertility rates (TFRs)in mainland Southeast Asia are found in Thailand and Vietnam.

Question 69

A large number of immigrants to Southeast Asia came from Japan.

Question 70

Most of insular Southeast Asia is characterized by the constantly hot and humid climates of the equatorial zone.

Question 71

Powerful typhoons have placed the greatest pressure on the forests of Southeast Asia.

Question 72

The topography of the Philippines includes rugged upland landscapes,as well as numerous volcanoes.

Question 73

Brunei is the only country in Southeast Asia that is primarily Roman Catholic.

Question 74

In mainland Southeast Asia,population is concentrated in the mountains.

Question 75

Malaysia lies both on the mainland and in the islands of Southeast Asia.

Question 76

In Southeast Asia,hurricanes are known as cyclones.

Question 77

Swidden cultivation is sustainable when population densities remain relatively low and stable,and where practitioners of swidden control an adequate amount of land.

Question 78

The population in Vietnam is concentrated in the deltas of the Mekong and Red Rivers.

Question 79

Kalimantan is also known as Borneo.

Question 80

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country and also has the largest population in Southeast Asia.