Exam 11: East Asia

A) Japan sought to expand its territory into China.
B) Subsequent efforts to establish a unified Chinese Republic were successful within the following decade.
C) Xinjiang fell under Russian influence.
D) Local military leaders ("warlords") grabbed power for themselves.
E) Tibetans gained autonomy.

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Japan, with a population of about 128 mi...

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A) 5 million
B) 500,000
C) 100,000
D) 21 million
E) 7 million

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A) Japan and China both have high birth rates.
B) Japan is growing faster than China.
C) Japan has a younger population than China.
D) Japan faces a critical shortage of young people in future generations.
E) Both Japan and China exhibit high growth.

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The massive Chinese economic expansion w...

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A) the Sichuan Basin
B) the Korean Peninsula
C) Manchuria
D) Tibet
E) Taiwan

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A) the provinces along the coast
B) Inner Mongolia
C) the western provinces
D) the region surrounding the Gobi Desert
E) the central provinces

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A) Chinese have emigrated to Japan by the millions to escape the policy.
B) The average total fertility rate has declined to 1.6.
C) The total fertility rate has increased as people routinely break the law to have large families.
D) Average total fertility rate has dropped to 1.6, but the number of baby boys far exceeds the number of baby girls because of gender-selective abortion and abandonment of healthy baby
Girls at birth.
E) The number of baby girls far exceeds the number of baby boys.

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A) Shenzhen
B) Chengdu
C) Beijing
D) Guangzhou
E) Shanghai

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A) the Japanese islands that lie closest to Russia
B) southeastern China
C) southwestern China
D) the northern portion of the Korean peninsula
E) central China

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A) Huang He
B) Irrawaddy
C) Xi
D) Yangtze
E) Mekong

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A) Tai, Xiang, Tibetan
B) Cantonese, Korean, Japanese
C) Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Japanese
D) Korean, Tibetan, Tai
E) Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Korean

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A) China
B) North Korea
C) Taiwan
D) South Korea
E) Japan

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Historically, the rugged terrain of the ...

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A) aggressive Chinese expansion into the South China Sea
B) border disputes between India and China
C) a nuclear Japan poised to repeat the military aggression of the 1930s and 1940s
D) tensions between China and Taiwan over the sovereignty of Taiwan
E) a geopolitically unstable North Korea acquiring nuclear weapons

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A) the loess plateau frontier with Mongolia
B) Taiwan
C) Tibet
D) Manchuria
E) the eastern coastal region

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A) 1900s
B) 1700s
C) 1500s
D) 1300s
E) 1100s

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A) is bounded by the Himalayas along its eastern frontier
B) roughly encompasses the same latitude as the continental USA, with warm, humid summers in the south, and bitterly cold winters in the north
C) is closely related to the physical geography of neighboring Japan
D) is dominated by the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, which flow from Manchuria in a southerly direction into Tibet
E) becomes more mountainous and more arid as you travel from west to east

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