1. What percentage of the world’s population lives in East Asia?
a) 10 percent
b) 20 percent
2. As compared to Japan, China’s population is ______.
a) About twice as large
b) Nearly four times as large
3. Which country has the largest economy in Asia?
a) Japan
d) Indonesia
4. Which country is NOT in Northeast Asia?
c) China
d) South Korea
5. Which country is NOT in Southeast Asia?
a) Cambodia
b) Vietnam
6. Besides Australia and New Zealand, the Pacific includes which of the following
groups of countries?
a) Melanesia
b) Micronesia
7. Independent kingdoms first developed in _______.
a) China, then Japan, and finally Southeast Asia.
d) Southeast Asia, then China, and finally Japan.
8. European colonialism took a stronger form in _____ than other geographic areas of the
region.
a) Northeast Asia
b) North Asia
9. Which of the following is not a type of Buddhism practiced in Southeast or Northeast
Asia?
a) Theraveda Buddhism
b) Tibetan Buddhism
10. What form of religious or philosophical thought do top Chinese officials still typically
embrace?
a) Buddhism.
b) Christianity.
11. In terms of GDP per capita, which of the following countries has the highest?
a) China
b) Singapore
12. According to the textbook, which country is referred to as a “newly industrialized
country”?
a) Cambodia
b) China
13. Which of the following was one of the two models of state formation following
World War II in East Asia?
c) Capitalism
d) None of these is correct.
14. Which of the following is true about population growth rates in East Asia?
a) Thailand currently has a negative population growth rate.
b) China’s growth rate had slowed to 0.0% by the year 2000.
15. What factors go into calculating the Human Development Index?
c) Life sustenance and freedom from servitude
d) Life sustenance, life expectancy, and infant mortality
16. Which leader argued that, “If the cat catches mice, what does it matter if it’s black or
white?” to advance and defend his economic reform program?
a) Tian Anmen
b) Mao Zedong
17. Over which geographic territories does China have an ongoing border dispute?
a) Sprately Islands
b) Paracel Islands
18. According to the textbook, one can argue that ___ and ___ are the historical offshoots
of Asia through trade and migration.
d) Horses and gunpowder