Japan is described as a closely related group of islands, also known as a(n)

What is the world’s highest mountain peak, located in the Himalayas?

What is the main reason why many big cities in Monsoon Asia are located in coastal regions or on river deltas?

Approximately how many people were displaced (forced to leave their homes) as a result of the 1947 Partition?

Mohandas Gandhi is famous for campaigning for independence through “civil disobedience,” which is defined as:

Match at least 4 countries/special provinces in East Asia correctly to receive a 2/2 on this section (after the curve). 

A monsoon is best defined as a:

PASSAGE #1 Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. Do you believe that your Zodiac sign matters? So many people apparently do that the home page for the Yahoo! Site on the World Wide Web will automatically provide your daily horoscope. But astrology—along with palm reading and tea-leaf reading, and all their relatives—is not a branch of psychology; it is pseudopsychology. Pseudopsychology is superstition or unsupported opinion pretending to be science. Pseudopsychology is not just “bad psychology,” which rests on poorly documented observations or badly designed studies and, therefore, has questionable foundations. Pseudopsychology is not psychology at all. It may look and sound like psychology, but it is not science. Appearances can be misleading. Consider extrasensory perception (ESP). Is this pseudopsychology? ESP refers to a collection of mental abilities that do not rely on the ordinary senses or abilities. Telepathy, for instance, is the ability to read minds. This sounds not only wonderful but magical. No wonder people are fascinated by the possibility that they, too, may have latent, untapped, extraordinary abilities. The evidence that such abilities really exist is shaky. But the mere fact that many experiments on ESP have come up empty does not mean that the experiments themselves are bad or “unscientific.” One can conduct a perfectly good experiment, guarding against bias and expectancy of effects, even on ESP. Such research is not necessarily pseudopsychology. Let’s say you wanted to study telepathy. You might arrange to test pairs of participants, with one member of each pair acting as “sender” and the other as “receiver.” Both the sender and receiver would look at hands of playing cards that contained the same four cards. The sender would focus on one card (say, an ace), and would “send” the receiver a mental image of the chosen card. The receiver’s job would be to guess which card the sender is seeing. By chance alone, with only four cards to choose from, the receiver would guess right about 25% of the time. So the question is, can the receiver do better than mere guesswork? In this study, you would measure the percent-age of times the receiver picks the right card, and compare this to what you would expect from guessing alone. However, what if the sender provided visible clues (accidentally or on purpose) that have nothing to do with ESP, perhaps smiling when “sending” an ace, grimacing when “sending” a two. A better experiment would have sender and receiver in different rooms, thus controlling for such possible problems. Furthermore, what if people have an unconscious bias to prefer red over black cards, which leads both sender and receiver to select them more often than would be dictated by chance? This difficulty can be countered by including a control condition, in which a receiver guesses cards when the sender is not actually sending. Whether ESP can be considered a valid, reliable phenomenon will depend on the results of such studies. If they conclusively show that there is nothing to it, then people who claim to have ESP or to understand it will be trying to sell a bill of goods—and will be engaging in pseudopsychology. But as long as proper studies are under way, we cannot dismiss them as pseudopsychology. (Stephen M. Kosslyn and Robin S. Rosenberg, Psychology, 2nd ed., Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2004.) 1. According to the passage, ESP

What is the relationship between two sentences below? Because most single parents wish to hide their sexual involvement from their child, finding a time and place can present problems. Nevertheless, being a single parent does not have to be a disaster. 

A trademark is a distinctive mark, motto, device, or implement that a manufacturer stamps, prints, or otherwise affixes to the goods it produces so that they can be identified on the market and their origins made known.