QUESTIONS TO STUDY FOR THE QUIZ

Pointers:
1. To study for the quiz, answer the following questions. The answers to these
questions will be on the lecture’s notes and your own notes.
2. To get the lecture’s notes, go to the course blog at http://indo11.blogspot.com/.
3. The quiz will consist of 20 questions from these. You will have to answer only 15
from them. You may answer all 20 if you have the time. You will have 30
minutes in total for each quiz.
4. Each correct answer will get 1 point. One number can have more than 1 correct
answer.
5. Suggestion: study with a friend, or in groups. You will answer the questions faster
and share each other’s notes.

QUIZ 1: THURSDAY, 2/12/09: Indonesian geography, Indonesian language,

Indonesian religions

The Geography:

1. What is the origin of the name ‘Indonesia’, and what does it mean?
2. Where is Indonesia located exactly? Name the neighboring countries.
3. Please rank Indonesia among the top five most populous countries in
the world.
4. How many islands are there in the Indonesian archipelago?
5. How big do you think Indonesia is, from west to east?
6. - How many countries have colonized Indonesia? Name the countries.

7. Name the five islands covered in class. Include any information you
know about the islands.
8. What is the capital of Indonesia? What is the population there?
9. What natural resources are there in Indonesia? Which natural
resources link the U.S. to Indonesia?
10. What crops are known to be from Indonesia? Name the islands where
they are from.
11. What were the commodities popular during the Dutch occupation in
Indonesia? Give examples.
12. What natural disasters occur in Indonesia?

The Language:

1. What do you know about the Indonesian language?

2. What do you know about the other languages in Indonesia?
3. What is the Indonesian language based on?
4. Why did they decide to make it a language of unity? When did it
happen?
5. Why is it that they have formal and informal Indonesian language?
 6. What family of language does Indonesian belongs to?
7. How many languages belong to this family? Name three of them
beside Indonesian.
8. How many speakers do this family of language have? Compare it to
English.
9. What is the language that has the largest first speakers in the family?
10. What are the areas covered by this family of language? Mention the
names of the places at the four farthest points.
11. What are the advantages of growing up in multi-language cultures like
Indonesia? Name two.
12. What are the advantages of growing up in a place like America, with
English as the official language? Name two.
13. Write the Indonesian expressions you learned in class.

The religions:

1. One of the five principles of Indonesia explains that Indonesians have

to have a religion. What does it say?
2. What are the six religions recognized by the Indonesian government?
What is the seventh one?
3. Which religions came to Indonesia first? Explain.
4. What do you remember about the coming of Islam to Indonesia?
5. What do you know about the syariah-influenced by-laws and
regulations in Indonesia? Name a few examples of the by-laws.
6. Are these by-laws in effect all over Indonesia? Explain.
7. What do the Moslems in the Middle East think of the Indonesian
Moslems? Why do they think so?
8. Did historically the Indonesian Moslem women always wear ‘jilbab’
(veils)? Please explain.
9. What Islamic movement did Prof. Jones talk about that took place in
the 80s in Indonesia?
10. How many Islamic parties are there in Indonesia? Name them.
11. Is Indonesia a secular or an Islamic country? Please explain.