Pangasinan State University

LINGAYEN CAMPUS
Lingayen, Pangasinan

LET REVIEWER
Asian Studies
June 23, 2013
Analyze the following statements and encircle the letter of the best answer.
1. Which of the following statements about the spiritual beliefs and practices of preIslamic Arabs is not true?
A. There was a central shrine, the Ka'aba, in Mecca.
B. Spirits were believed to inhabit objects of the natural world.
C. Most people were polytheistic.
D. A strong priestly class controlled access to the patron gods.
E. Faith was communal and involved all members of a tribe.
2. Mao's Great Leap Forward:
A. collectivized farmland into large communes.
B. created village size collectives.
C. proved to be wonderful success.
D. copied the New Economic Policy of Lenin.
E. attempted to redistribute farmland.
3. Sikhism was an attempt to:
A. accommodate Buddhism and Islam.
B. drive Muslims out of northern India.
C. integrate the best of Islam and Hinduism.
D. purge Hinduism of any vestiges of Islam.
E. revitalize the declining Buddhist movement.
4. The Old Babylonian law code was based on an "eye for an eye" justice. This
severity was necessary in part due to:
A. society stratification.
B. the absence of ethical/moral code in religious doctrine.
C. numerous medical malpractice cases.
D. foreign culture infiltration.
5. Why did the ideas in the Upanishads influence only a small number of people?
A. there were too many other influential breakaway religions
B. the ideas were centered on unimportant deities
C. ideas were too complex for the masses to understand
D. the masses were satisfied with the traditional ways
6. During the Ming dynasty, how did one become a member of the bureaucracy?
A. emperor appointment
B. examinations
C. by purchasing office
D. hereditary
7. What have Hindus learned from the philosophical poem, Bhagavad-Gita?
A. theory and practice of government in Mauryan Empire
B. will of gods
C. hardships of a hero
D. morality
8. After the twelfth century, what caused Buddhism to completely vanish from the
land of its birth?
A. absorption into Hinduism
B. Christian proselytizing by the Apostle Thomas
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C. massacre by Mahmud the "Image Breaker"

D. destruction of Buddhist establishments by Muslim invaders
9. Which of the following was not a cause of the Chinese Revolution?
A. Qing administration's decision to take power from provincial governments
B. increasing influence of foreigners
C. frustration of rural peasants
D. diffusion of Western reform ideas by educated Chinese
E. embarassing defeat in Sino-Japanese War
10. Dowager Empress Cixi:
A. has a name I can readily pronounce
B. nephew's concubine who ruled in his place
C. encouraged implementation of Western reform ideals
D. eventually arrested Emperor after considering Hundred Days Reform
E. increased territorial holdings of China
11. The Chinese Revolution of 1911 was followed by:
A. years of chaos and the gradual secession of provinces
B. decades of stability enforced by a democratic regime
C. the establishment in 1927 of a Republican parliament
D. the return of power to the Qing emperor in 1912
E. the decreasing power of warlords in outlying provinces
12. Sun Yat-sen:
A. initiated the revolt in 1911 by leading a military insurgency
B. was frustrated that he had not achieved the title of father of Modern China
C. advocated the principles of nationalis, democracy and the People's
Livelihood
D. refused to employ military strategies to gain power
E. died before seeing the revolution succeed
13. The Chinese Republic of 1912:
A. was run by the Communist Party - Kuomintang
B. represented the first time in China a politician had come to power by the
will of the people
C. ended in a Civil War as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong united to assume
power
D. succeeded without assistance from the Soviets
E. implemented the American Constitution for 87 years
14. During the Tokugawa Shogunate:
A. power resided with the emperor
B. the samurai fought with the haiyatsu for dominance
C. the Tokugawa clan centralized government
D. social mobility became increasingly possible
E. Japan involved itself with world trade
15. The Meiji Restoration
A. was implemented from above by the government
B. was successful due to the dominance of the merchant class
C. came without Western encouragement
D. abolished payments to samurai
E. created formal law code and elected parliament known as the Diet
16. Which of the following was not a characteristic of British rule of India?
A. all castes exposed to British education
B. spread of Christianity
C. building of roads and canals
D. raw materials flowed out of India and manufactured goods flowed back in
E. rate of urbanization increased

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17. Which of the following does not accurately reflect European influence in
Southeast Asia?
A. France created the colonies of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
B. Indonesia was controlled by the Dutch East India Company
C. Bristish influenced Malaya and the island Singapore
D. the Philippines was ruled for most of the 19th century by Spain
E. part of Indonesia was controlled by Portugal
18. Thailand was one of the few Asian regions to remain free of colonial rule
because:
A. the King of Siam had an affair with a beautiful teacher from England
B. both England and France essentially agreed to keep the region as a buffer
zone between their empires
C. Thailand industrialized making it a formidable military foe
D. natural resources of region not desired by Europe
E. rapid spread of malaria made region inhospitable
19. Which best explains the British East India Company's ability to govern India:
A. size of corporation
B. ability to work with local rulers and manipulate regional divisions
C. Indian desire to be ruled by outsiders
D. centralized authority ruled from London
E. British hesitancy to put down insurrections that might harm regional power
20. Napoleon referred to China as a "sleeping dragon" because:
A. it would be a formidable foe once its resources and population were
utilized efficiently
B. its military devestated surrounding regions
C. he was defeated by Chinese soldiers in Egypt in 1797
D. calling it an awake dragon would sound kind of awkward
E. the nation had an unfair trade balance with Europe because no European
nation wanted Chinese goods
21. Which of the following was not a reason China was unable to push back
European influence?
A. expensive cost of securing borders drained treasury
B. population growth was not being matched by food harvests
C. corrupt government officials
D. Europe hadn't traded with China for over three hundred years
E. string of incompetent leaders
22. Which of the following is not a reason the Manchu Emperor of China outlawed
the Opium Trade in 1839?
A. decrease in productivity resulting from addiction
B. unfair trade balance
C. decline in Chinese values
D. fear of ever increasing influence of the West
E. workers too effective because opium heightens the senses and makes a
human able to work for 27 hours straight without a break
23. Which of the following was not a reflection of Japan's rapid industrialization?
A. ability to beat Russia in Russo-Japanese War
B. ability to fend off economic threat of Europe
C. ability to beat China in Sino-Japanese War
D. ability to beat Vietnam in Indochina-Japanese War
E. Japan becomes first non-Western nation in centuries to create new empire
24. Economically, what enabled Japan to become a colonial power after 1894?
A. Agricultural advances increased the population and forced Japan to look for
new land.
B. Japanese trade wars against the United States removed regional
competition for colonies.
C. Industrialization allowed Japan to expend resources on military and colonial
expansion.
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D. The Japanese were forced to acquire colonies in Asia when European trade
was banned.
25. Mohandas Gandhi used his philosophy of nonviolent noncooperation in an effort
to:
A. form a Marxist government in India.
B. convince his fellow Indians to support the Allies in World War II.
C. persuade Pakistanis to separate from India.
D. achieve Indias independence from Great Britain.
26. The Arab oil embargo against the United States in 1973 was initiated because of
U.S. support for:
A. Egypt in the Suez Crisis.
B. Iraq in its conflict with Iran.
C. Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
D. Greece in its conflict with Turkey.
27.

Technological innovations
Production of nuclear power
Religious and ethnic conflict
Existence of vast oil reserves

During the twentieth century, which factors from this list have made the
Middle East significant to the rest of the world?
A. 1 and 2
B. 3 and 4
C. 1 and 3
D. 2 and 4
28. In India and Pakistan, feelings of nationalism are intertwined with religious
conflict between:
A. Buddhists and Hindus.
B. Christians and Muslims.
C. Taoists and Buddhists.
D. Muslims and Hindus.
29. Identify the important original contribution of the Hebrew culture to the
civilizations in the Middle East and Mediterranean during the Classical Period.
A. Monotheism
B. Written legal code
C. Phonetic alphabet
D. Priest caste
30. In addition to Judaism, identify the two cultures that most influenced the
development of early Christianity.
A. Sumerian and Egyptian
B. Greek and Roman
C. Egyptian and Greek
D. Sumerian and Roman
31. What civilization was initially responsible for the unification of the Middle East,
Asia Minor (modern Turkey), and the Iranian plateau?
A. Rome
B. Egypt
C. Ottoman
D. Persian
32. What statement accurately compares the government of the Han dynasty with
that of the Roman Republic?
A. Power in the Han dynasty was concentrated in a centralized bureaucracy
dominated by Confucian scholars while power in the Roman Republic was
shared among the major landowning families of Rome.
B. Power in the Han dynasty rested solely with the emperor while in Rome all
citizens were able to express their opinions and influence government.
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C. Power in the Han dynasty was concentrated in a centralized bureaucracy

dominated by Confucian scholars while in the Roman Republic all citizens
shared power in governmental
decisions.
D. Power in the Han dynasty rested in the hands of the military generals and
their successors, who had helped defeat the previous Qin dynasty, while
power in the Roman Republic rested in
the hands of legion commanders and provincial governors.
33. What statement defines the dynastic cycle?
A. Chinese governments ruled based on the power of a single family.
B. While at first militarily powerful, as a dynasty came to depend more on
Confucian scholars than generals, it became weaker militarily and would
eventually fall to foreign invasion.
C. Chinese government depended upon economic growth to sustain power,
and as the economy declined, based on cycles, so too did the dynasties.
D. Initially a Chinese government enjoyed prosperity and economic growth,
but over time corruption, internal disasters, and external invasions all eroded
a dynastys power.
34. Identify the major trade network between Asia and Europe.
A. Trans- Saharan caravans
B. The Silk Road
C. Indian Ocean sea- lanes
D. Mediterranean sea- lanes
35. Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, Let my people go, that
they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.
Mosess words to Pharaoh as recounted in the Bible, Exodus 5:1
Identify which of the following religions that would NOT accept the statement above
as part of their religious heritage.
A. Roman Catholicism
B. Islam
C. Eastern Orthodox
D. Zoroastrianism
36. Though often not officially interested in foreign trade, what example below
indicates the involvement of the Chinese government in internal trade?
A. The Great Wall of China
B. The opening of the civil service exam to all backgrounds
C. The construction of the Grand Canal
D. The use of tax money for flood control
37. Which of the following is a correct analysis of the impact of the early Mongol
Empire on trade?
A. The Mongols looted caravans to the point that the Silk Road no longer
facilitated trade across Asia.
B. The Mongols patrolled trade routes and protected caravans in their empire,
leading to a boom in trade along the Silk Road.
C. Merchants sought other routes, especially through Southeast Asia and the
Indian Ocean, to avoid the Mongol tribesmen.
D. Merchants were forced to turn to other professions as the Mongols refused
to allow other peoples to move through their empire.
38. He [Kublai Khan] makes them take of the bark of a certain tree. What they take
is a certain fine white skin which lies between the wood of the tree and the thick
outer bark, and this they make into something resembling sheets of paper, but
black. When these sheets have been prepared they are cut up into pieces of
different sizes. The smallest of these sizes is worth a half tornesel; the next, a little
larger, one tornesel; one, a little larger still, is worth half a silver groat of Venice;
another a whole groat; others yet two groats, five groats, and ten groatsand on
every piece a variety of officials, whose duty it is, have to write their names, and to
put their seals. And when all is prepared duly, the chief officer deputed by the Khan
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smears the seal entrusted to him with vermilion, and impresses it on the paper, so
that the form of the seal remains printed upon it in red; the money is then
authentic. Anyone forging it would be punished with death. And the Khan causes
every year to be made such a vast quantity of
this money, which costs him nothing, that it must equal in amount all the treasure in
the world.
From The Travels of Marco Polo
What statement best evaluates Marco Polos discussion of paper
money from the perspective of a modern economist?
A. Absolute authority allowed for the printing of unlimited amounts of
currency without inflation.
B. Marco Polo failed to understand how the khan collects wealth in order to
print the currency without rampant inflation.
C. Due to lack of foreign trade, the printing of currency by the khan does not
increase inflation because no foreign wealth enters the Chinese economy.
D. As long as a national government the khan in this case is trusted by its
people, the government can print currency without fear of inflation.
39. The spread of Islam into India and Southeast Asia was facilitated by:
A. the military conquest of the caliphate.
B. the introduction of Sufi mysticism.
C. the lack of native belief systems.
D. the Mongol conquest.
40. In 1900, European, American, and Japanese troops landed in China to put down
a rebellion initiated by the Society of the Righteous Harmonious Fist, called Boxers
by Westerners, because:
A. even though the Westerners did not favor the Qing dynasty, they did not
want it replaced by a stronger Chinese government.
B. of treaty obligations the Western governments and Japan had negotiated
with the weak Qing dynasty.
C. the Boxers goal was the expulsion of foreigners and their influence from
China.
D. the rebellion provided an excuse to permanently station Western troops in
China based on a series of previous treaty agreements.
41. The first woman prime minister of a Muslim country.
A. Hasina Wajed
B. Benazir Bhutto C. Khaleda Zia
Gandhi

D. Indira

42. The daughter of the dictatorial president of South Korea who was elected in
December 2012 as countrys first woman president.
A. Chang Sang
B. Ban Ki-moon
C. Park Geun Hye D.
Roh Moo Hyun
43. The Arab Spring ousted which president of a country in Arabian Peninsula.
A. Yemen
B. Syria
C. Oman
D. Saudi
Arabia
44. The worlds only theocratic state which is found in Asia.
A. Iran
B. Iraq
C. North Korea
D. Malaysia
45. Yingluck Shinawatra is currently the only woman head of government in
Southeast Asia. She is the prime minister of what country?
A. Myanmar
B. Thailand
C. Cambodia
D. Vietnam
Prepared by:

RENATO ESPINOZA SALCEDO, Ph.D.

Reviewer
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