Globalization and Diversity, 5e (Rowntree et al.)
Chapter 13 Southeast Asia
1) Which country in Southeast Asia contains the largest number of islands?
A) Indonesia
B) Malaysia
C) Philippines
D) Thailand
E) Burma
2) “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
3) What country in Southeast Asia is a city-state?
A) Singapore
B) Malaysia
C) Indonesia
D) Burma
E) Thailand
4) 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
5) 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
6) 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
7) On which island of Indonesia are the forests still extensive?
A) New Guinea
B) Kalimantan
C) Sumatra
D) Java
E) Borneo
8) 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
9) What is the longest river in Southeast Asia?
A) Mekong
B) Irrawaddy
C) Red River
D) Chao Phraya
E) Salween
10) What country straddles the mainland and insular portions of Southeast Asia?
A) Burma
B) Philippines
C) Singapore
D) Malaysia
E) Vietnam
11) Which island country lies directly in the path of tropical typhoons in the months of August
and October?
A) Indonesia
B) Malaysia
C) Timor
D) Vietnam
E) Philippines
12) What factor contributes to Southeast Asia’s periodic extreme drought?
A) volcanoes
B) typhoon
C) El Niño
D) deforestation
E) air pollution
13) 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
14) By what other name is Kalimantan also known?
A) Borneo
B) Luzon
C) Java
D) the Malay Peninsula
E) Sumatra
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
16) 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
17) Of what material is the Khorat Plateau composed?
A) granite
B) limestone
C) volcanic soil
D) sandstone
E) coral
18) 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
19) With the exception of the central highlands of Vietnam, how long does mainland Southeast
Asia’s monsoon 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
20) 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
21) 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
22) 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
23) Which country is undertaking a massive dam-building program to expand its hydroelectric
output?
A) Vietnam
B) Laos
C) Burma
D) Cambodia
E) Thailand
24) 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
25) 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.
26) Which Southeast Asian country is primarily Roman Catholic?
A) the Philippines
B) Indonesia
C) Thailand
D) Brunei
E) Vietnam
27) What country of Southeast Asia is the most highly urbanized?
A) Burma
B) Singapore
C) Vietnam
D) the Philippines
E) Cambodia
28) Immigration and migration in Southeast Asia reached a peak in the 19th and 20th centuries.
What country has dominated this process?
A) China
B) India
C) Russia
D) Japan
E) Australia
29) The Shan State, known as the focus of the Golden Triangle, is in what country?
A) Thailand
B) Laos
C) China
D) Burma
E) Cambodia
30) On mainland Southeast Asia, what is the most common crop in the lowlands?
A) rubber
B) coconuts
C) rice
D) sugarcane
E) opium poppies
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
32) What is the most densely settled island of the Philippines?
A) Mindanao
B) Samar
C) Negros
D) Luzon
E) Palawan
33) What is the chief product of the “Golden Triangle” of Southeast Asia?
A) bananas
B) electronics
C) heroin
D) gold
E) rice
34) 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
35) What country has the highest population in Southeast Asia?
A) Burma
B) Vietnam
C) the Philippines
D) Indonesia
E) Laos
36) 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
37) 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
38) Which of the following conditions is relatively common in Southeast Asia?
A) major conurbations
B) a megalopolis
C) counterurbanization
D) primate cities
E) gentrification
39) Why is the Singapore government concerned about its country’s population?
A) The addiction to opium is too great.
B) Swidden or slash and burn agricultural practices are leaving inhabitants with poor air quality.
C) Fertility rates have fallen below replacement.
D) Population density is so high that many Singaporeans are relocating to adjacent countries.
E) Heavy urbanization has led to poor health.
40) What Tai-Kadai dialect is spoken in the Khorat Plateau of Thailand?
A) Isan
B) Thai
C) Siamese
D) Bahasa
E) Papuan
41) What have large international companies, like Cargill, done to support sustainable palm oil
production?
A) encourage swidden or slash and burn techniques on and near wetlands
B) trade with plantations that provide corn oil instead
C) provide research funds in order to develop sustainable methods of production
D) pledge that they would no longer trade palm oil that comes from deforested lands
E) send funds to help reforest the wetland areas that have been impacted
42) Which Southeast Asian megacity listed below does NOT have a large slum problem?
A) Bangkok, Thailand
B) Manila, Philippines
C) Jakarta, Indonesia
D) Singapore, Singapore
E) Bandung, Indonesia
43) 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.
44) 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
45) What is the most densely settled island of Indonesia?
A) Borneo
B) Java
C) Sumatra
D) Bali
E) Luzon
46) Which of the following factors helps to explain why Southeast Asia is still relatively sparsely
settled?
A) tremendous out-migration
B) infertile soil and rugged topography
C) the lack of a modern transportation system
D) centuries of civil war
E) the presence of many tropical diseases such as malaria and yellow fever
47) 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
48) 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.