Chapters 8.1 - 8.5

Question 1

_____ is the name of the mountain range in northern India/Nepal.

Answer 1

Himalayas

Question 2

_____ _____ is the capital of India.

Answer 2

New Delhi

Question 3

Most of South Asia’s economy comes from _____.

Answer 3

Farming

Question 4

Pakistan’s primary climate is _____.

Answer 4

Desert

Question 5

The wet season is monsoon season, which helps with agriculture but can also cause mudslides and heavy flooding.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

India has the second largest population in the world, with more than one billion people living in its lands.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Bangladesh’s predominant religion is Buddhism.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Bhutan’s predominant ethnicity is Iranian.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

______ is a beautiful and fertile land that some people have called paradise on earth.

Answer 9

Kashmir

Question 10

The _____ are a string of islands near the southwestern tip of India in the Indian Ocean.

Answer 10

Maldives

Question 11

Southeast Asia’s climate and culture are strongly affected by _____ winds and rain.

Answer 11

monsoon

Question 12

One of the first cultures in the world began in the valley around the _______ more than 4,600 years ago.

Answer 12

Indus River

Question 13

The ______ river is more than 1,500 miles long and flows southeast through India to the Bay of Bengal.

Answer 13

Ganges

Question 14

If the monsoon rains are very light, ______ can occur which leads to crop failure and famine.

Answer 14

drought

Question 15

Followers of Christianity believe that the Ganges River is holy.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

There were two great cities of the early Indus valley civilization called Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro

Answer 16

True

Question 17

By 1700 BCE, the Indus valley civilization had almost totally disappeared which brought an end to one of the world’s earliest agricultural societies.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

In 1960, India and Nepal signed a water treaty which allowed both nations to have use of the Indus River.

Answer 18

False

Question 19

Smaller rivers and streams flow into the Indus River from snow in the ______ that has melted.

Answer 19

Himalayas

Question 20

One famine in _______ in 1974-1975 killed more than 200,000 people.

Answer 20

Bangladesh

Question 21

The most populous country in the South Asia region is ______, which has more than one billion people.

Answer 21

India

Question 22

______ is a slang name for the Indian film industry.

Answer 22

Bollywood

Question 23

The _____ was a series of paths and passages used by traders that linked the cities of China to the Middle east and Europe.

Answer 23

Silk Road

Question 24

Pakistan is largely _____; therefore, their cuisine is made with specific Islamic food preparation practices.

Answer 24

Muslim

Question 25

One of the most important festivals in Hinduism is the harvest festival of Ramadan.

Answer 25

False

Question 26

The Hindus believe in reincarnation, the belief that individual beings live and die many times.

Answer 26

True

Question 27

Islam is the majority religion in both Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

______ is the most widely spoken language in India, while ______ is the official language of Pakistan.

Answer 28

Hindi and Urdu

Question 29

Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain gave a company called the _______ _______ _______.

Answer 29

East India Company

Question 30

For centuries, the ______ ______ in India was a central principle through which social position was understood.

Answer 30

caste system

Question 31

In the year 1600, Queen Elizabeth l provided a royal grant to the _______ _______ _______ which gave it a monopoly over all English trade rights in the area.

Answer 31

East India Company

Question 32

As a young man, _______ worked against discrimination in the British colonies of South Africa and India.

Answer 32

Mohandus Gandhi

Question 33

More than half of India's population depends on _______ to survive.

Answer 33

agriculture

Question 34

Gandhi's famous _______ taught Indians that they did not need trade because much of what they needed was available in India.

Answer 34

"salt march"

Question 35

Beginning around 1750, the British military captured large areas of India by force/war and completely controlled India by 1858.

Answer 35

True

Question 36

The number of Hindi speakers in India has helped import jobs from wealthy English-speaking countries.

Answer 36

False

Question 37

India is the world's largest monarchy.

Answer 37

False

Question 38

Great Britain granted independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.

Answer 38

True

Question 39

Pakistan's high rate of _______ makes it tough to take advantage of the growth in technology services like India has.

Answer 39

illiteracy

Question 40

Two important political groups who called for public support for public support for ending British rule were the _______ _______ _______, formed in 1885 and the _______ _______, formed in 1906.

Answer 40

Indian National Congress and the Muslim League

Question 41

Years of _______ had made Indians doubt the value of being part of the world economy.

Answer 41

colonialism

Question 42

Today, almost one-third of the people in India live in _______.

Answer 42

poverty

Question 43

Under the caste system, the lowest group in Indian society is the _______, or untouchables.

Answer 43

Dalits

Question 44

The problem of hundreds of thousands of educated Indians leaving India since the early 1990s for better opportunities abroad is called _______.

Answer 44

"brain drain"

Question 45

Today, wealth in India is not distributed evenly because there is a small number of poor people and a large number of rich people.

Answer 45

False

Question 46

The industries in modern-day India include information technology, customer service, manufacturing and textile, and film.

Answer 46

True

Question 47

In India, boys are less likely to attend school than girls.

Answer 47

False

Question 48

Discrimination based on caste is now illegal in India; however, it continues to be a problem.

Answer 48

True

Question 49

_______ _______, a Dalit, is the first women speaker in the Indian Parliament.

Answer 49

Meira Kumar

Question 50

About half of the rural villages in India lack basic services, including _______, _______ _______, _______ _______ _______, and _______ - _______ _______, and other infrastructure needed to improve economic opportunities.

Answer 50

electricity, good schools, good medical services, and well-kept roads