The History of Hindu India

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Standards Assessment

DIRECTIONS: READ EACH QUESTION AND DETERMINE THE LETTER OF THE BEST RESPONSE§

1. Which were consequences of the Partition?§

  1. Pakistan attacked Kashmir
  2. 15 million people moved to or from Pakistan
  3. One million people died in riots and from hardships
  4. All of the above

2. How were the states of India reorganized?§

  1. Following the boundaries of the princely states
  2. On the basis of population
  3. On the basis of linguistic groups
  4. Along important rivers and mountain ranges

3. A state has what powers in the Indian political system?§

  1. Only those specified in the national constitution
  2. All those not granted to the Central Government
  3. The same powers it had as a princely state
  4. Those granted by its state constitution

4. What did India’s early leaders emphasize?§

  1. Making every citizen part of the political process
  2. Achieving national economic self-sufficiency
  3. Guaranteed higher education opportunities and jobs for lower castes and tribes
  4. All of the above

5. How did India change its economic policies in the 1990s?§

  1. Raised import duties on foreign goods
  2. Eased restrictions on industries and encouraged private business and foreign investment
  3. Became self-sufficient in food which made it possible to spend those funds within the country
  4. Invested in foreign markets

6. How has the poverty rate in India changed since 1947?§

  1. From 50% to 10%
  2. From 50% to 25%
  3. From 50% to 40%
  4. Not at all

7. What is one way India’s secularism is unlike the West’s?§

  1. State governments control Hindu temples
  2. Government officials must belong to one religion
  3. Only members of some religions can vote
  4. State governments control all religious sites

8. What unites India as one religious landscape?§

  1. Control by one denomination of Hinduism
  2. Pilgrimage destinations throughout the country
  3. Everyone speaks the same language
  4. Everyone is of the same ethnic group

9. What is the purpose of bathing at Rameswaram’s wells?§

  1. To find release from past misdeeds
  2. To guarantee entry to heaven
  3. To be entered into the Hindu faith
  4. To cleanse the body

10. Which of the following is not governed by a chakra?§

  1. Divine sight
  2. Willpower
  3. Sushumna nadi
  4. Memory

11. Soft power is defined as:§

  1. Spiritual energy and force
  2. Economic influence
  3. Diplomacy
  4. Cultural influence

12. What fraction of Americans believe in reincarnation?§

  1. one-sixteenth
  2. one-eighth
  3. one-quarter
  4. one-half

13. What spiritual leader brought Hindu ideas to the West?§

  1. Swami Prabhavananda
  2. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  3. B.K.S. Iyengar
  4. All of the above

14. How does India rank in power among the world’s nations?§

  1. Second
  2. Third
  3. Fourth
  4. Sixth