Asia – Chapter 2, Lesson 3
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1. What beautiful building is the crowning achievement of Mughal architecture?
a. The Taj Mahal.
b. The Akbar Fortress.
c. The Summer Palace.
d. The Forbidden City Palace.
2. What was the role of the East India Company?
a. First training center for government officials.
b. First educators for medical doctors.
c. First training effort for the army.
d. First trading company .
3. What did the Charter Act passed by the British Parliament in 1813 introduce in India?
a. Schools.
b. Just and humane laws.
c. Industry and factories.
d. Trading and commerce laws.
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4. What moved goods much more easily and faster in India starting in the 1850s?
a. Cars.
b. Railroads.
c. Improved roads.
d. A pony express service.
5. Who led the Hindus along the path to an independent country known as India?
a. Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
b. Mohandas K. Gandhi.
c. Jawaharlal Nehru.
d. Sir Robert Clive.
6. Who would be known as the “Father of Pakistan”?
a. Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
b. Mohandas K. Gandhi.
c. Jawaharlal Nehru.
d. Sir Robert Clive.
7. What did the Indian National Congress use as ways to win independence?
a. Violent revolution leading to civil war.
b. Economic strikes leading to civil unrest.
c. Nonviolent resistance and noncooperation.
d. Collaboration with British sympathizers and violent resistance.
8. What was one of Gandhi’s targets?
a. The tea tax.
b. The salt tax.
c. British treatment of women.
d. British monopoly of Indian fabrics.
9. What did India become in 1947?
a. A dominion within the British Commonwealth.
b. A colony of Britain with little self-rule permitted.
c. An independent state, but retained trading ties with Britain.
d. An Islamic republic independent of the British Commonwealth.
10. What percentage do Hindus make up of India’s 1.14 billion people?
a. 40 percent.
b. 65 percent.
c. 80 percent.
d. 98 percent.
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11. What group does Pakistan’s majority belong to?
a. Hindus.
b. Shia Muslims.
c. Sunni Muslims.
d. Indian Christians.
12. Why did Pakistan’s two “wings” have trouble getting along?
a. East Pakistan dominated the Parliament.
b. West Pakistan dominated the central government.
c. West Pakistan was Muslim and East Pakistan was Hindu.
d. West Pakistan dominated the economy and trade relations.
13. What country entered the 1971 war on the East Pakistani side?
a. Afghanistan.
b. Britain.
c. India.
d. Iran.
14. What limits people’s economic potential in South Asia?
a. India’s lack of religious freedom.
b. Their political party.
c. India’s caste system.
d. Their ethnic group.
15. Who have helped increase Hindu-Muslim tensions in South Asia?
a. Gandhi’s followers.
b. British colonists.
c. Hindu dalits.
d. Politicians.
16. What country has been known as the crossroads of Central Asia?
a. India.
b. China.
c. Pakistan.
d. Afghanistan.
17. Which country is annotated with the number “2”?
a. Bhutan.
b. Pakistan.
c. Maldives.
d. Afghanistan.
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18. Which country is annotated with the number “4”?
a. India
b. Nepal
c. Maldives
d. Bangladesh
19. Which country is annotated with the number “3”?
a. India
b. Pakistan
c. Sri Lanka
d. Afghanistan
20. Helping out at the Unit Car Washes is a good example of ________________.
a. Service
b. Respect
c. Tenacity
d. Responsibility
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