Sample Exam II

(NOTE: This is a sample – questions in the actual test may be variations of those below or on related topics).

 

For Map exercise & columns

 

  1. Northeastern States of India that share a boundary with BD

 

 

  1. Northeastern States of India that share a boundary with China

 

 

  1. Northeastern States of India that share a boundary with Myanmar

 

 

  1. Northeastern States of India that share a boundary with Bhutan

 

 

  1. Northeastern States of India that share a boundary with Nepal

 

 

  1. Pakistan’s provinces/territories that share boundaries with Afghanistan

 

 

  1. Pakistan’s provinces/territories that share boundaries with India

 

 

  1. Pakistan’s provinces/territories that share boundaries with Iran

 

 

  1. Pakistan’s provinces/territories that share boundaries with China

 

For Fill in the Blanks & columns

 

  1. Head of the State in Bhutan is ______________________ (position)

 

  1. National religion in Bhutan ____________________.

 

  1. Head of the State in Nepal is ______________________ (position)

 

  1. National religion in Nepal ____________________.

 

  1. Head of the State in Maldives is ______________________ (position)

 

  1. National religion in Maldives ____________________.

 

  1. Head of the state in Myanmar is ___________________________ (position)

 

  1. National religion in Myanmar ______________________.

 

  1. Tibet is located in ___________________ (country), its capital is _______________, and it shares boundaries with ____________________________ (countries).

 

  1. Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami is based in __________________ (country).

 

  1. LTTE is based in __________________ (country) and is fighting for __________________________________ (cause).

 

  1. The _________________ (organization) Country Director, Christine I. Wallich, reportedly left ______________ (country) after receiving a death threat on September 7, 2004 and returned only after security assurances from the govt.

 

  1. According to Pakistan, the disputed region in Kashmir includes Azad Kashmir on Pak side and _____________________________________ on the Indian side, but not _________________________________ which India claims.

 

  1. The capital of Azad Kashmir/POK is _____________________ while that of Jammu & Kashmir/OK is __________________________.

 

  1. The capital of Northern Areas is ______________________________ and the territory has is managed by ______________________________ (body) .

 

  1. The people of the Northern Areas got the right to adult franchise in _________ (year) while those in Azad Kashmir got it in __________ (year) and those in Jammu & Kashmir got it in ___________(year).

 

  1. ______________ requires US partners to screen those containers that pose a risk at the port of departure before they arrive at _____________________ (destinations).

 

  1. Dr. __________________’s network came under scrutiny after two of his customers, _______________ and _________________ confessed to receiving nuclear technologies from him.

 

  1. To support nonproliferation of WMDs, President Bush has proposed to expand interdiction efforts under __________________________, to criminalize proliferation through a new UN Security Council resolution # ______________, and to create a special committee at the ______________________ to investigate compliance.

 

  1. Significant flashpoints share the common elements ___________________, __________________ and ______________________.

 

  1. By 1994, India was widely considered to have nuclear capability, but in the form of ________________________ or opaque deterrent.

 

  1. Pakistan’s peaceful nuclear research program was initiated in the 1950s but became a national defense issue only during the late 1960s due to the arguments of a civilian leader Foreign Minister Z. A. Bhutto. It accelerated after the ____________ war and the 1974 ________________, and finally came under direct military control in _______________ when General Zia deposed PM Bhutto.

 

  1. Long-term US suspicions that China had provided nuclear weapons assistance to _________________ were confirmed when a blueprint of a 1960s vintage weapons device, with instructions in Chinese, was found among items turned over to the US by __________________ as part of the investigations regarding the Khan network.

 

  1. ____________________ (acronym) an automated border control system, is being implemented in ____________ (number) ports of immigration in Pakistan, that not only records details of every person leaving or entering Pakistan, but would also transmit these details to the central servers of ______________ back in the US.

 

  1. Pakistan’s _______________________________ (in full) status makes it eligible to buy ________________ uranium ammunition, to use US ____________________ (2 word term) Financing for commercial leasing of certain defense articles, get loans of materials, supplies and equipment for cooperative R&D projects.

 

  1. US Congress in 1985 passed the ______________ Amendment (Section 620E of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961), requiring annual presidential certification that Pakistan did not possess a nuclear device. This amendment stipulated that American assistance to Pakistan would immediately be cut off if the president found that Pakistan had attempted to illegally acquire American material for making nuclear weapons. The _______________ Amendment, signed into law by President Clinton in January 1996 overturned this stipulation to allow a one-time exemption for Pakistan.

 

  1. Ironically, although initially condemned by the Clinton administration, the Indian nuclear tests of 1998 precipitated the longest series of high-level bilateral talks in the history of the US-India relationship. They involved Deputy Secretary of State __________________ and Indian Foreign Minister_____________________.

 

  1. Both India and Russia supported the anti-Taliban group called the __________________ ________________________which was led by___________________, popularly called the Lion of Panjshir. Two days before ____________________he was killed by two men posing as journalists.

 

  1. In 1993, Pakistan moved many of its militant training camps into eastern _____________ because it was afraid that under Indian pressure US would declare it a ______________________________.

 

  1. India has managed to spawn a number of companies that now compete internationally with the best that Europe and the United States have to offer. Moreover, many of these firms are in the most cutting-edge, knowledge-based industries, such as (give any 2 names as examples)   _________________________ and _________________.

 

  1. In a survey of 25 emerging market economies conducted in 2000 by Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia, India ranked ___________ in corporate governance, China _______________.

 

  1. In 1998, per capita Indian military spending was about $14, while in Pakistan it was ________ and China _______.

 

  1. During the Cold War, India’s strategic doctrine was based on a mix of Nehru’s Panchasheel or five principle of _____________________ and NAM or __________________________________.

 

  1. The Shaheen series of missiles in Pakistan are __________________ in origin while the Ghauri series are _________________________ in origin.

 

  1. India has produced a supersonic cruise missile called __________________ in joint venture with ________________________.

 

  1. Among the CBMs already in existence between India and Pakistan are the agreement to not _______________________ ; to notify each other prior to ________________________ and ________________________; and communication links for regular and emergency communications called the _______________________.

 

  1. The NSSP or ___________________________________ and the HTCG or _____________________ ______________________________ are two initiatives aimed at encouraging bilateral cooperation in ______________________ sectors and stronger Indian ____________________________ to ensure security of US technology.

 

True /False & columns

 

  1. All significant executive powers in Northern Areas are vested in federal minister for Kashmir affairs who is a non-elected government servant.

 

  1. While the All Parties Hurriyet Conference leads the political struggle against India in Kashmir, it has no control over the guns, as most of the jihadi organizations draw sustenance from private outfits in Pakistan.

 

  1. NSG is considered by many states to violate Articles IV and V of the NPT.

 

  1. By withdrawing from NPT, North Korea violated Article X of the treaty.

 

  1. The P-5’s failure to disarm is considered a violation of Article VI of the NPT.

 

  1. Iran is said to have violated its NPT commitments because it has developed nuclear weapons.

 

  1. India and Pakistan cannot be brought into the NPT because they have tested nuclear weapons, but Israel can, because it has not done so.

 

  1. When they acceded to the CWC, Russia, India, US, and an unnamed country declared all the chemical weapons in their possession but India has not agreed to destroy its stockpile.

 

  1. AG is the enforcement arms of the BWC just as IAEA is the enforcement arm of the NPT.

 

  1. MTCR requires that its members neither develop nor export missiles with a range greater than 300km and warhead exceeding 500kg weight.

 

  1. China has recently been inducted into the NSG and the MTCR.

 

  1. United States would like China and India to join the PSI.

 

  1. Taiwan and Russia are members of the PSI.

 

  1. Post-Mao economic and political liberalization in Tibet has led to greater Tibetan acceptance of Chinese rule.