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Multiple Choice
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This activity contains 25 questions.

Question 1
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Open Hint for Question 1 in a new window		 Before 1990, the only countries in Central Asia that were already independent of China or the Soviet Union were:
 
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Question 2
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Open Hint for Question 2 in a new window		 One of the great environmental tragedies of the 20th century was the virtual destruction of the _____ due to water mismanagement. Fluctuations in size and heavy pollution also threaten the _____.
 
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Question 3
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Open Hint for Question 3 in a new window		 Environmental concerns of the people in Central Asia include:
 
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Question 4
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Open Hint for Question 4 in a new window		 Major mountain ranges in Central Asia include all of the following EXCEPT:
 
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Question 5
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Open Hint for Question 5 in a new window		 Rainfall in Almaty, Kazakstan, peaks in _____ while temperatures are generally highest in _____.
 
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Question 6
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Open Hint for Question 6 in a new window		 People in Central Asia earn their livelihoods as either nomadic _____ or sedentary _____. Some of the best farmland in the region is in fan-shaped deposits of sediments dropped by streams flowing out of the mountains, known as _____.
 
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Question 7
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Open Hint for Question 7 in a new window		 The Fergana Valley is shared by:
 
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Question 8
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Open Hint for Question 8 in a new window		 The lowest birthrates in Central Asia are in:
 
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Question 9
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Open Hint for Question 9 in a new window		 While most Central Asian cities developed under Russian or Soviet rule, which of the following cities was famous hundreds of years earlier?
 
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Question 10
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Open Hint for Question 10 in a new window		 Which of the following language groups is spoken by more Central Asians than any other?
 
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Question 11
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Open Hint for Question 11 in a new window		 Like President Hamid Karzai, an Afghan man from Jalalabad is likely to be ethnic _____ but speak fluent _____.
 
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Question 12
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Open Hint for Question 12 in a new window		 A woman in rural eastern Afghanistan is required to cover her entire body (including her face) in public because:
 
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Question 13
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Open Hint for Question 13 in a new window		 The Taliban, a radical fundamentalist Islamic group, controlled Afghanistan from the mid-1990s to 2001. Before they were forced from power by invasion of US and UK troops, the Taliban outraged the world by:
 
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Question 14
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Open Hint for Question 14 in a new window		 While Russian became the lingua franca of western Central Asia during the Soviet era, the emerging language of choice is:
 
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Question 15
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Open Hint for Question 15 in a new window		 In Qinhhai and Inner Mongolia, the _____ now outnumber the indigenous ____ and _____ peoples.
 
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Question 16
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Open Hint for Question 16 in a new window		 Mongolia became a communist state in:
 
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Question 17
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Open Hint for Question 17 in a new window		 Azerbaijan's Naxcivan province is a portion of the country's territory that lies outside the rest of the country, which is also called a(n):
 
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Question 18
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Open Hint for Question 18 in a new window		 China maintains strict control over Xinjiang in part because:
 
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Question 19
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Open Hint for Question 19 in a new window		 Russia is a major trading partner with several Central Asian countries and maintains troops in:
 
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Question 20
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Open Hint for Question 20 in a new window		 Which of the following countries is now a major trading partner with the countries of Central Asia and focusing on trade routes to link the region to its ports?
 
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Question 21
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Open Hint for Question 21 in a new window		 Economic resources available to the countries of Central Asia include:
 
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Question 22
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Open Hint for Question 22 in a new window		 The poorest country in the region, Afghanistan is nonetheless one of the world's largest producers of:
 
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Question 23
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Open Hint for Question 23 in a new window		 As part of the legacy of Soviet rule throughout Central Asia, women's educational rates are generally _____ to those of men and women are _____ in the workplace.
 
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Question 24
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Open Hint for Question 24 in a new window		 According to Eastern Turkestan Web pages, how many of the non-Han peoples of Xinjiang are illiterate?
 
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Question 25
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Open Hint for Question 25 in a new window		 Central Asia is landlocked with no direct access to sea lanes that currently form the main conduits of global exchange. However, the region may still connect to the world market by:
 
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