NewsTracker Answers for week of Apr 30, 2012

Q: Chinese authorities have begun to round up relatives and associates of blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who fled from house arrest last week. Where is China?

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Q: Chen scaled the wall that had been built around his house, slipped past his security detail and made a desperate sprint to apparent safety in China's capital of . . .

A. Hong Kong

B. Beijing

C. Taipei

D. Shanghai

B. At least three activists who helped Chen have disappeared, including the woman who drove him more than 300 miles to Beijing and a man who admitted to meeting Chen as he was shuttled between safe houses in the capital.

Q: Chen was believed to have taken sanctuary in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, creating diplomatic tensions between major trading partners. Which nation is the top U.S. trading partner?

A. China

B. Britain

C. Canada

D. Mexico

C. Last year, the United States had more than $597 billion in total imports and exports with Canada compared with about $503 billion with China. But, the U.S. trade deficit with China was more than $295 billion – by far the country's largest trade imbalance.

Q: Chen, a self-taught lawyer, angered officials by filing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of women forced to undergo abortions and sterilizations under the China's strict family-planning policy. China is the world's most populous nation, and it is about the same geographic size as . . .

A. Australia

B. India

C. Russia

D. United States

D. With about 3.72 million square miles of total area, China is slightly smaller than the roughly 3.79 million square miles of the United States. China has a population of 1,343 million compared with 313 million in the United States.

Q: Chen was placed under house arrest in 2010 after after spending more than four years in jail on charges of disrupting traffic and damaging property. Which nation has the most prisoners?

A. China

B. India

C. Russia

D. United States

D. The United States has nearly 2.2 million people behind bars compared to about 1.5 million in China. Overall, the United States has about a quarter of the world's prisoners while it has less than 5 percent of the world's population.