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A key element of China’s economic growth policy starting in the early 1980s are SEZs (Special Economic Zones). Where are they located?
Along the east coast
In the poorest regions to attract economic grow
In the region around the capital Beijing
N the minority areas (Yunnan, Xinjiang, Tibet)
They are no longer in operation as all have been abandoned
Which is NOT a consequence of China’s birth control policy?
Sex selectivity in the womb (more female fetuses aborted)
Bandonment of young girls disproportionate to boys
Population will eventually stabilize about 1.5 billion people
A current fertility rate of about 1.7 (# births to each woman)
A population that will start declining this year
Because of its strong demand for mineral resources and raw materials for its manufacturing sector, Chinese investment abroad has strongly concentrated on such sectors? Which country (aftter the US still in first place), has the largest Chinese foreign investment since 2005
Nigeria
Saudi Arabia
Canada
Australia
Russia
Which of the groups below is NOT a significant minority in China?
Han
Uighurs
Tibetans
Mongolians
Hui
Which of the factors below is NOT a centrifugal force in Pakistan?
Conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims
Differences between the 4 major regions especially Baluchistan
An aversion to Hindu-dominated India
Conflict between the state and the Taliban and other militias
E. Continual conflict between the armed forces and the civilian
The Mahatma Gandhi legacy of Indian politics has given the country which of the following?
A pluralist and democratic complexion
An antipathy towards Muslims, who are a large minority
A rigid birth control policy like China’s one child policy
A unitary state with a focus on the capital, New Delhi
E. A near-permanent state of war with Pakistan
The ‘ hukou ’ system in China allows the state to perform all of the functions below EXCEPT ?
Force people to fill out a household registration card
Stop the movement of people to cities
Control residence in cities
Monitor the movement of suspected people e.g. dissidents
Control the internet and block unwanted sites e.g. Facebook
The worst off areas in China (by the HDI measure) are in the
Interior (e.g. Gansu) and West (e.g. Xinjiang) area
Along the east coast
Near the big polluted cities (Shanghai, Beijing
Tibet and adjoining provinces with large ethnic minorities
E. The offshore islands (Hong Kong, Macao)
Which is the best definition of “ dalits ” who reside in India? (Economist reading)
The rebels of North-east India who have a Marxist view
The farmers who cultivate rice in southern India
The young engineers who work in the high-tech industries
The people of the scheduled castes (formerly untouchables)
S another name for the 160+ million Muslims of India
According to the Economist reading, which of the following animal killings are often violently protested by religious supporters in the BJP.
Chickens
Pigs
Fish
Cows
Goats
Which one of the following circumstances occurred in Kashmir in 1947-48?
The Hindu-oriented leader wanted to stay in India
The Muslim majority wanted to stay in India
The Muslim leader wanted to join Pakistan
Pakistan won control of most of the area
Radcliffe allocated the territory to India
Which of the following areas are richest in India?
Assam in the NE
East where the Naxalites are active
Maharashtra (area near Mumbai) and Kerala
Near the capital New Delhi
In the Ganges basin – Uttar Pradesh
N the Parenti reading on climate change effects in India, he writes that “where drought advances, so do ...... ” (fill in the blank)
Insects
Hindu extremists
Muslim extremists
Sikh extremists
Maoists
Which of these statements is correct?
More than 2/3rds of Indian farmers depend on Himalayan runoff for their crops
India’s urban population is more than its rural population
India has a small Muslim minority (less than 5% of the total population)
A major terrorist attack in 2008 occurred in Kolkata
Muslim terrorist assassinated Indira Gandhi, former Indian Prime Minister
Which of the following city-specialization/reputation match is incorrect ?
Delhi governmental services
Bangalore financial services (correct answer)
Mumbai ‘gateway to India’
Varanasi religious center on the Ganga
Kolkata formerly Calcutta
Which of the following statements about India ’ s agriculture is incorrect?
. T he Green revolution of the 1960s and 1970s was initially funded primarily by investors and moneylenders
Ndia is the world ’ s largest market for tractors
Agriculture is the largest source of employment in India
Agricultural yields increased initially after the Green Revolution but have recently stagnated
India is one of the worlds largest producers of wheat, tea and rice
What of these statements is correct about the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan – the name of the group that is bisected by it and the name of the line?
Sikhs - Curzon
Uzbeks - Balfour
. Pashtun – Durand
Punjabis - Radcliffe
. Baluchis - Churchill
What happened at Ayodhya in 1992 that produced widespread violence and a legacy of hate in India
A Hindu temple was destroyed
A mosque was destroyed and a Hindu temple built
A shrine to Buddha was destroyed
A terrorist attack on Western interests occurred
A Sikh terrorist assassinated Indira Gandhi
In which Afghan city did the Taliban first gain power
Kabul
Mazar-i-Sharif
Kandahar
Bamiyam
Kunduz
Where is the Khyber pass?
Between Tehran and Kabul
Between Kandahar and Kabul
Between Peshawar and Kabul
Between Dushanbe and Kabul
Only Waldo knows
Which one of the following groups in Pakistan is not bisected by an international border ?
Punjabis
Sindhis
Pushtuns
Baluchis
All of them are
Which of these set of countries/regions best represents the “near abroad”?
East and West Siberia
Poland and Hungary
Ukraine, Latvia and Georgia
North Caucasus
China and Mongolia
What is the preferred term for the civic ideal of Russian citizen?
Russkiy
Bolshevik
Kolkhoznik
Rossiyanin
Any of the above
In which of the following general areas of Afghanistan are the Taliban most entrenched and active (Nov 2017)?
South and east
South and west
Central – near Kabul
North
West and north
In which of the following ethnic groups in Afghanistan are the Taliban most likely to find support (Nov 2017)?
Tajiks
Uzbeks
Turkmen
Hazara
Pashtuns
One of the most tragic events of the recent wars in the Caucasus was the terrorist attack and subsequent denouement at the school in Beslan with almost 400 killed in 2004? Where is Beslan ?
North Ossetia
South Ossetia
Abkhazia
Nagorno-Karabakh
Chechnya
Which one of the following territories is NOT a ‘de facto’ state?
South Ossetia
Transdniestria
Nagorno-Karabakh
Crimea
Abkhazia
Which one of the following groups is the largest Muslim minority in Russia?
Chechens
Avars
Bashkirs
Tatars
Balkars
Approximately which of the following ratios represents the proportion of Russians in the former Soviet Union in 1989
0%
25%
50%
75%
95%
In the recent history of the Caucasus, the deportation of all members of 4 ethnicities in 1943-44 to Central Asia marks a major iconic and nation-identity event in their respective histories. Which Soviet leader ordered the deportations
Lenin
Trotsky
Stalin
Khrushchev
Gorbachev
Which is the poorest of the post-Soviet states (GDP/capita measure)? Hint: this country is famous for its teahouses
Ukraine
Latvia
Lithuania
Tajikistan
Georgia
Which one of the following territories is NOT a Caucasian country?
Russia
Ukraine
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Georgia
Which one of these Caucasian peoples is mostly a Muslim population?
Ossetians
Russians
Armenians
Georgians
Chechens
N this week’s reading, there is special aBen1on to Stalin, the Soviet leader. From which Tsarist/Soviet region did Stalin come?
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Russia
Georgia
Moldova
There should be a discussion of the 3 rd group in Ukraine beyond the usual Ukrainian-Russian binary. This group is about 40% of the total population. Who are they
) Ukrainian-speaking Russians
Russian-speaking Ukrainians
Tatar-speaking Tatars
Moldovan-speaking Ukrainians
Russian-speaking Tatars
The current (after April 2014) conflict concentration t in Ukraine is
Kiev
Crimea
Dnipropetrovsk
Lviv
Donbas
In which one of the following pairs is the sponsor country INCORRECT
Turkey Armenia
Turkey Azerbaijan
US Georgia
US Kazakhstan
Russia Armenia
Which of the following combina1on of countries in the FSU are ‘least free”?
Moldova and Ukraine
Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Ukraine and Georgia
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Armenia and Azerbaijan
N his chapter on Mexico, Parenti talks about how President Cárdenas in the 1930s used Article 27 of the 1917 Mexican constitution to mandate which of the following?
A brutal dictatorship
The maquiladora program
PEMEX – state-owned oil PEMEX – state-owned oil company
Bid for the Olympic games
Bailout from the IMF
As part of the 1982 bailout agreement, what did the Mexican government agree to do? (Parenti)
Sign the NAFTA agreement
Lower the minimum wage
Clamp down on drug trafficking
Start the maquiladora program
Ell off over 100 state-owned companies and agencies
Which of the following statements is false?
More Mexicans are leaving the United States than coming here
In FY 2015, Mexico apprehended more Northern Triangle nationals than the United States
Central Americans are the second largest immigrant group inthe United States
The majority of unauthorized immigrants in the United States are from Mexico
US Border Patrol apprehensions of unaccompanied minors peaked in 2014
What is the primary reason Mexicans are returning home to Mexico?
Crime
Family reunification
Deportation
Donald Trump
Better job opportunities
The de Blij reading for this week discusses this particular Brazilian phase ‘favela’ for a prominent feature in the country? To which of the following does it refer
Deforestation
A political movement
Brazil’s soccer fans
Shantytowns in the cities
The indigenous rights movement
What is the ‘el Niño’s’ predominant effect on the north-east of Brazil (de Blij reading)?
Drought
Heat
Floods
Tornadoes
epic hail
Brazil is now one of the most unequal countries in the world in terms of income distribution, which of the following is one of the most equal?
) United States
United Kingdom
Norway
India
China
Who won the World Cup (soccer) played in Brazil in summer 2014?
Argentina
United States
Germany
Spain
Brazil
In his chapter on Brazil, Paren0 talks about the lack of a sense of community in ci0es such as Rio. To which of the following reasons, does he aIribute this lack?
Poor na0onal governance
Rela0ve depriva0on
Police corrup0on
Rival soccer teams fan support
Racial divides
What is “ cerrado ”?
Tropical forest
Savannah grasslands
Brazilian exports
Andean plateau
None of the above
What is the highway referred to in the NG readings known as?
Beef highway
Pork highway
Soya bean highway
Chicken highway
Gold highway
What does the “ Bolsa Familia ” program - started by the Lula government in Brazil - do? ( Paren0 )
Raise the social wage
Raise the minimum wage
Raise the minimum years in school
Raise the state support for family planning programs
Raise the level of state support for indigenous claims to forest lands in the face of pressure from outsiders
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