Exam 10: Southeast Asia

According to the explanation in the textbook,how do periodic El Niño events help to create drought in Southeast Asia?

What is the largest country in Southeast Asia?

Which of the following is NOT true of the workers in Southeast Asia's sex tourism industry?

Which road system being built in Southeast Asia is intended to facilitate travel throughout the region and to Eurasia?

The main river of Thailand is the:

The Salween and Irrawaddy Rivers flow through:

The economic crisis that swept through Southeast Asia in the late 1990s was primarily caused by:

Which of the following was NOT colonized by the British?

The city of Angkor was located in what is present-day:

What island in Southeast Asia is home,in whole or in part,to three countries?

The idea that if one country fell to communism,nearby countries would follow was called the:

The first president of the independent Indonesia was:

Which of the following is the most appropriate description of crony capitalism in Southeast Asia?

As practiced in Southeast Asia,commercial farming tends to increase the species variety of crop plants while consuming less water than traditional types of agriculture.

Single young men from rural areas are favorable employees for export-oriented industries because they will work for low wages and are not as likely as women to complain about being restricted from certain jobs on the basis of their sex.

Briefly describe crony capitalism and explain how it contributed to the 1997 financial crisis in Southeast Asia.

Almost a quarter of Cambodia's population was executed or starved to death in the "killing fields."

Because of its lower wages,Vietnam has recently had success in attracting industries and factories that otherwise would have located in China.

Sex tourism is officially illegal in Thailand.

During the colonial period,the Dutch made strong efforts to establish Protestantism as the dominant religion of the Dutch East Indies.