Part 1. Multiple Choice. Circle the correct option.
(2 points each, 2x25=50 points)
1. Who was the leader of the movement to
force Britain to leave India?
2. A theocracy is a government run by which
kind of leaders?
3. What is the Earth’s smallest continent?
4. Which continent holds most of the world’s
fresh water as ice?
5. The government controls everything in
which kind of economy?
6. A person who manages his or her own
business is this:
13. The one God of Hinduism:
15. The Cold War divided East Asia into:
16. What is a communist country in East Asia?
17. Who was China’s first communist leader?
18. What word means “population trends”?
19. It’s the biggest country in Southeast Asia:
20. A sudden seizure (taking over) of a
government is called a:
21. What war was fought in Southeast Asia
because of communism?
22. Australia’s original people are known as:
23. New Zealand’s original people are known
as:
7. Which company began to control India in
the 1770s?
8. Both India and Pakistan claim what region
as their land?
9. What country did East Pakistan become in
1971?
10. What is the name of the Muslim empire that
controlled India starting in 1526?
11. Which country invaded Afghanistan to
support the communists there?
12. Sacred book/hymns of Ancient
India/Hinduism:
14. What new religion was born in Northern
India?
24. Which country used to control both
Australia and New Zealand?
25. Britain decided to partition India into what
two states/countries?
26. What are 2 Chinese inventions that
transformed the world?
27. Why did China ban Britain from trading
opium with it?
28. What country did Japan attack in 1941?
29. Why do many East Asians not follow any
religion?
 30. Japan was defeated in WWII after the
United States did what? 34. What did North Korea develop, which
threatens the East Asia region
31. How are the governments of North Korea
and South Korea different? 35. Why do you think Gandhi used only
nonviolent protest?
32. What is discrimination?

33. The Cold War was between which 2

countries?

Answers 27. It was harming the people

1. Gandhi
2. Religious 28. America
3. Australia
4. Antarctica 29. Communists governments discourage
5. Command religion
6. Entrepreneur
7. British East India
8. Kashmir
9. Bangladesh 30. Dropped two atomic bombs on it
10. Mughal
11. Russia
12. Veda 31. North Korea is communist and South Korea
13. Brahman is democratic.
14. Sikhism
15. Communist and Democratic groups
16. North Korea
17. Mao Zedong 32. Unfair treatment
18. Demography
19. Indonesia 33. America and Russia/Soviet Union
20. Coup
21. Vietnam War 34. Nuclear weapons
22. Aborigines
23. Maori 35. To avoid bloodshed; British army was too
24. Britain powerful
25. India and Pakistan

26. Compass, gunpowder, printing press