Select the BEST answer for each question from the choices given by clicking on the radio button.
1.
The country with the second largest population in the world is:
A.
Pakistan
B.
the United States
C.
Russia
D.
India
E.
China
2.
Of India's 967 million population in 1996, _____ million are Muslims.
6
450
65
110
200
3.
The major river of Pakistan is the:
Indus
Ganges
Brahmaputra
Tigris
Irrawaddy
4.
The periphery of the Deccan plateau is marked by mountain ranges called:
Punjabs
Ghats
Himalayas
Karakoram
Hindu Kush
5.
The Hindu religion predominates in which country?
Bangladesh
Papua New Guinea
Sri Lanka
6.
Which of the following statements about Islam's advance into India is false?
Islamic armies vigorously, even violently, spread the faith.
The majority of the people eventually converted to Islam.
This area was called the Islamic Mogul empire.
Placid Hinduism and aggressive Islam have never coexisted easily.
Islam did not spread significantly into Dravidian India.
7.
British colonial rule in India brought all of the following except:
attempts to standardize the subcontinent on the use of the Tamil language
an economic setback to farmers
a system of "Native States"
the education of India's elite in England
an attempt to end undesirable features of Indian culture
8.
One concern in Pakistan about India and Kashmir is that:
Pakistan uses the area as a base for terrorist activity in India, with guerrillas using the mountains to hide
the Indus River flows through Kashmir
Muslims are being ruled by Hindu rulers
Indians are persecuting the Hindu majority in Jammu
B and C above
9.
The Pathans irredentist movement in the Northwest Frontier of Pakistan is based on cultural affiliations with the neighboring country of:
Iran
Afghanistan
Jammu and Kashmir
10.
The official language of India, one of 14 given national status, is:
Hindi
English
Charisma
Sikh
Nehru
11.
Centrifugal forces:
tend to pull a state together, unifying it and increasing its cohesion
determine the effectiveness with which the boundary system functions to control the population
affect the binding function of the capital city
have the effect of dividing a state, promoting disunity and internal fragmentation
pull a state from representative to authoritarian forms of government
12.
In India, a leading centrifugal force is:
Hinduism
multiple languages
the personality of Nehru
the Sikh population
none of the above
13.
Which of the following statements about Indian agriculture is false?
Rice is grown in the east and wheat in the west.
Wheat is grown in the east and rice in the west.
The Green Revolution led to significant increases in production.
Cotton is produced in west-central India.
All of the above are false.
14.
Bangladesh was formerly known as:
East Pakistan
West Pakistan
Ceylon
Nepal
Burma
15.
The small group of islands 400 miles south of India are the:
Maldives
Dravidians
Colombos
